You cannot open a book without learning something.

Nationality : Chinese

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I had a marketing idea that everybody hated, decency is sexy.

I couldn’t speak Japanese very well, passport regulations were changing, I felt British, and my future was in Britain. And it would also make me eligible for literary awards. But I still think I’m regarded as one of their own in Japan.

Author : Kazuo Ishiguro

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.

Author : Samuel Beckett

Being prime minister is a lonely job… you cannot lead from the crowd.

Author : Margaret Thatcher

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

Author : Victor Hugo

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Author : Edward Abbey

I never smile when I have a bat in my hands. That’s when you’ve got to be serious. When I get out on the field, nothing’s a joke to me. I don’t feel like I should walk around with a smile on my face.

Author : Hank Aaron

The predominant yardstick of your government is not human rights but national interests.

Author : Breyten Breytenbach

Given the choice between the experience of pain and nothing, I would choose pain.

Author : William Faulkner

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

Author : Terry Pratchett

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Author : Albert Einstein

Every hero becomes a bore at last.

Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson