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“Systems don’t break. They optimize—until people become variables.”

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“If I have a handful of silver it is because I work and my wife works, and we do not, as some do, sit idling over a gambling table or gossiping on doorsteps never swept, letting the fields grow to weeds and our children go half-fed!" (Buck, 65)”

Silver Work Ethic Fruits Of Labor The Good Earth

Book:The Good Earth

Source: The Good Earth

“and I look on my brain as a mass of hydraulically compacted thoughts, a bale of ideas, and my head as a smooth, shiny Aladdin’s lamp. How much more beautiful it must have been in the days when the only place a thought could make its mark was the human brain and anybody wanting to squelch ideas had to compact human heads, but even that wouldn’t have helped, because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words, inquisitors burn books in vain. If a book has anything to say, it burns with a quiet laugh, because any book worth its salt points up and out of itself.”

Bohumil Hrabal Too Loud A Solitude

Book:Too Loud a Solitude

Source: Too Loud a Solitude

“When my eye lands on a real book and looks past the printed word, what it sees is disembodied thoughts flying through air, gliding on air, living off air, returning to air.”

Bohumil Hrabal Too Loud A Solitude

Author:Bohumil Hrabal

“living in a onetime kingdom where it was and still is a custom, an obsession, to compact thoughts and images patiently in the heads of the population, thereby bringing them ineffable joy and even greater woe; living among people who will lay down their lives for a bale of compacted thoughts.”

Bohumil Hrabal Too Loud A Solitude

Author:Bohumil Hrabal

“But just as a beautiful fish will occasionally sparkle in the waters of a polluted river that runs through a stretch of factories, so in the flow of old paper the spine of a rare book will occasionally shine forth, and if for a moment I turn away, dazzled, I always turn back in time to rescue it.”

Bohumil Hrabal Too Loud A Solitude

Author:Bohumil Hrabal

“and my eyes open panic-stricken on a world other than my own, because when I start reading I’m somewhere completely different, I’m in the text, it’s amazing, I have to admit I’ve been dreaming, dreaming in a land of great beauty, I’ve been in the very heart of truth.”

Bohumil Hrabal Too Loud A Solitude

Author:Bohumil Hrabal

“It [The Great Gatsby] has interested and excited me more than any new novel I have seen, either English or American, for a number of years....it seems to me to be the first step that American fiction has taken since Henry James.”

Book Literature Fscottfitzgerald Scottfitzgerald Thegreatgatsby Tseliot

Author:T. S. Eliot

“And yet... before her, everyone had felt empty. Meaningless. But she, she ignited something within me, something unexpected, something dangerous. Something extraordinary. And I couldn’t decide whether that thrilled or terrified me more.”

Book:Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies

Source: Ashen Embrace (Divine Destinies

“La notte, nel letto, lo perseguitavano le ambizioni più grottesche e fantastiche, il cervello gli tesseva un universo di sfarzo indicibile, mentre l'orologio ticchettava sul lavabo e la luna gli intrideva di luce umida gli abiti sparsi alla rinfusa sul pavimento. Ogni notte alimentava le sue fantasie finché la sonnolenza si abbatteva con un abbraccio dimentico su qualche scena vivace. Per un certo periodo queste fantasticherie gli procurarono uno sfogo all'immaginazione; erano un'intuizione confortante dell'irrealtà della realtà, una promessa che la roccaforte del mondo era saldamente basata sull'ala di una fiaba.”

Thegreatgatsby Il Grande Gatsby

Author:Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“Whenever you feel like criticizing anyone," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages you've had”

Author:F. Scott Fitzgerald