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You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. But if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?


Shannon L. Alder


#changing #different #inattention #life #loss-of-focus

It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changing for the first time since Gutenberg invented the modern book nearly 600 years ago. “The only really necessary people in the publishing process now are the writer and reader,” he said. “Everyone who stands between those two has both risk and opportunity.” Amazon Signs Up Authors, Writing Publishers Out of Deal. New York Times, 10/16/2011


Russell Grandinetti


#e-books #libraries #publishing #change

I look at the books on my library shelves. They certainly seem dormant. But what if the characters are quietly rearranging themselves? What if Emma Woodhouse doesn’t learn from her mistakes? What if Tom Jones descends into a sodden life of poaching and outlawry? What if Eve resists Satan, remembering God’s injunction and Adam’s loving advice? I imagine all the characters bustling to get back into their places as they feel me taking the book down from the shelf. “Hurry,” they say, “he’ll expect to find us exactly where he left us, never mind how much his life has changed in the meantime.


Verlyn Klinkenborg


#library #reading #change

There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends—always ready to meet your mood, always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.


J. Donald Adams


#friends #library #mood #truth #change

Literature simply becomes richer after you've been fired, rejected, stranded, or had to change a few midnight diapers.


Christian Bauman


#books #literature #change

The ones that are crazy enough to believe that they can change the world are the ones that do. Tim Durling


Tim Durling


#books #fantasy #tim-durling #change

Having gone through it all had changed our outlooks. You can't be as much of a bitch as you were before, you can't be as much as an egomaniac, you can't feel as much like the world owed you something, you can't be the 'where's mine?' guy.


Anthony Kiedis


#outlook #change

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living.


Lexa Doig


#cigarettes #duff #exactly #girl #healthy

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.


Wilma Mankiller


#adversity #cherokee #collectively #continue #down

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.


Eric J. Hobsbawm


#writing #change