Pasteurized Quotes

#1. I'm not sure that pasteurized thinking is rich enough in intellectual vitamins

Keith Laumer

#2. A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

Mark Twain

#3. We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books, auditoriums for book talks, circles for story time; we'll always need brick-and-mortar libraries.

Marilyn Johnson

#4. A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Charles Horton Cooley

#5. Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

Anthony Hecht

#6. I thought that strange syntax was the language of story books. I didn't realize those were poor translations ... English from Edwardian times.

Sandra Cisneros

#7. Space is infinite. To the mind that means freedom, liberation.' So wrote Arisko, our greatest turkle philosopher, in his most famous work, 'Thoughts In A Bathtub'," said Dottia, dreamily, in an inspired state.

Philip Dodd

#8. And all at once I had no one to trade looks with.

Anne Tyler

#9. The world is broken he said, how will you fix it?

I don't think anyone can fix it but we can teach ourselves & eachother to focus on the good and the important and maybe little by little this place won't feel so heavy.

Nikki Rowe

#10. It's fun because you can escape and learn about what other people's minds have created. It inspires you to think maybe you could come up with a creature yourself. I like that.

Elle Fanning

#11. It was conscious of the events of life as they occurred.

Oscar Wilde

#12. The NSA routinely lies in response to congressional inquiries about the scope of surveillance in America.

Edward Snowden

#13. People say writing is really hard. That's very unfair to those who are doing real jobs. People who work in the fields or fix roofs, engineers, or car mechanics. I think lying on your back working under an oily car, that's a job.

Paul Theroux

#14. It must be a great environment to work in.

Kate White

#15. To be one's self, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity.

Irving Wallace