Thought provoking
There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag — and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you... See more
Doris Lessing on How to Read a Book and How to Read the World
“The role of the artist is exactly the same as the role of the lover. If I love you, I have to make you conscious of the things you don’t see.”
The Role of an Artist & The Role of a Lover
Only a fool or an egomaniac would deny that chance shapes the vast majority of life. The time, place, culture, family, body, brain, and biochemistry we are born into, the people who cross our path, the accidents that befall us — these dwarf in consequence the sum total of our choices. Still, our choices are the points of light that flicker against... See more
Maria Popova • The Marginalian
It is only when we dare to leave a place, a city, a memory that we realise in earnest what “home” really means, but if this is true, home is always bound to remain unattainable, unreturnable—motherland is a huge castle built on dunes, and when it collapses with the wind, it flows between our fingers like dry sand.
Elif Shafak • The Role of an Artist & The Role of a Lover
“That is part of the beauty of all literature . You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
We Read. We Write. We Belong.
‘I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved, all the cities I have visited.’
Elif Shafak • We Are What We Read
Quote from Jorge Luis Borges
"the question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim."
- edsger dijkstra
“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.”
Elif Shafak • The Role of an Artist & The Role of a Lover
Both partners taking accountability for having an outside support network (no attempt to make each other everything)
I can’t do better than Kurt Vonnegut on this subject:
I can’t do better than Kurt Vonnegut on this subject:
Why are so many people getting divorced today? It’s because most of us don’t have extended families anymore. It used to be that when a man and a woman got married, the bride got a... See more