#read

Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#every man #exists #full #himself #his

But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that. ↗

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

#i #i do #i write #mind #reader

When you look at a city, it's like reading the hopes, aspirations and pride of everyone who built it. ↗

— Hugh Newell Jacobsen

#built #city #everyone #hopes #like

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#before #between #by the time #course #damage

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#avoid #best #best way #die #follow

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. ↗

— Erica Jong

#already #answer #ask #know #wish

I was working straight for nine months and I'm exhausted. I'm ready to relax for a little while and read. I don't want to work for work sake; I have to be excited about it. ↗

— Sanaa Lathan

#excited #exhausted #i #little #months

I lucked out when I started to sing. I'd already experienced failing at everything else. ↗

— Cyndi Lauper

#else #everything #experienced #failing #i

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#artist #business #dreadful #fighters #follow

Well, I think one doesn't really have to invent this memorial space, because it is already there. And it is speaking with a voice and, you know, 4 million of us came to see the site. ↗

— Daniel Libeskind

#because #came #i #i think #invent