Michelle Cliff quotes

“Who can say how many lives have been saved by books?”
-- Michelle Cliff

Source : Michelle Cliff (2009). “Everything is Now: New and Collected Stories”, p.95, U of Minnesota Press

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“To garden is a solitary act.”
-- Michelle Cliff

Source : Michelle Cliff (1980). “Claiming an Identity They Taught Me to Despise”

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“Our lives are written in disappearing ink.”
-- Michelle Cliff

Source : Michelle Cliff (1998). “The Store of a Million Items: Stories”, Mariner Books

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“Captive people have a need for song.”
-- Michelle Cliff

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“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.”

“The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.”

“To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you.”

“Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.”

“Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.”

“The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...”

“As life tends to become more and more distracting, let us firmly hold on to books.”

“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.”

“It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2011). “A.J. Jacobs Omnibus: The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, My Life as an Experiment”, p.707, Simon and Schuster

“My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2008). “The Year of Living Biblically: One Man's Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible”, p.29, Simon and Schuster