Według badań przeciętny Amerykanin czyta średnio 12 książek rocznie. Nie jest to zły wynik przyjmując, że pracujemy coraz więcej. Czasami nie starcza energii, żeby zanużyć się w mniej lub bardziej ambitnej literaturze. Cytaty są niejako skrótem myślowym i mogą dać nam namiastkę tego, co oferuje książka. Są przy okazji źródłem wartościowych refleksji oraz nowego słownictwa. Zanim przejdziecie do czytania i analizy wybranych cytatów, polecam przećwiczyć kluczowe słownictwo w nich zawarte -> klik.
1. George Orwell, 1984:
“I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.”
2. Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum:
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”
3. Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story:
“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.”
6. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Aphorisms:
“To be content with little is difficult; to be content with much, impossible.”
7. Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten:
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
