Tim Parks quotes
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“With books at least, the best experiences are not when you find what you were looking for, but when something quite different finds you, takes you by surprise, shifts your tastes to new territory.”
-- Tim ParksSource : Tim Parks (2012). “Teach Us to Sit Still: A Skeptic's Search for Health and Healing”, p.13, Rodale
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“Italy is not a country for beginners.”
-- Tim ParksSource : Tim Parks (2014). “Italian Ways: On and Off the Rails from Milan to Palermo”, p.20, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Always read with a pen in your hands, not beside you on the table, but actually in your hand, ready, armed ... Put a question mark by everything you find suspect. Underline anything you really appreciate. Feel free to write 'splendid,' but also, 'I don't believe a word of it.' And even 'bullshit.'”
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“More and more the writer is aware of an international community of readers for whom dense language use and frequent local references are a hindrance. This seems obvious. I don't decry it or criticize it - it's just a fact.”
-- Tim ParksSource : Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com
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“Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.”
-- Tim ParksSource : Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com
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“If you want to appeal to people of different languages and cultures, you have to move toward tropes that are universally recognized. Games, references, subtleties that only work in your language are hardly useful.”
-- Tim ParksSource : Source: theuntranslated.wordpress.com
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“And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.”
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“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”
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Source : "Science and Sanity: An Introduction to Non-Aristotelian Systems and General Semantics". Book by Alfred Korzybski, 1933.
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“While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.”
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“Coffee in England always tastes like a chemistry experiment.”
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