[Publib] book quotes

[Michael McCulley]

Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces
such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can 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.
 - A.E. Newton

 

In the real world, as in dreams, nothing is quite what it seems.
 - The Book of Sorrows

 

We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,
bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of knowledge...
characters we have climbed into as if trees, fears we have hidden in as if
caves. (...) We are communal histories, communal books. We are not owned or
monogamous in our taste or experience.
 -Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

 

The trouble with life is, by the time you can read a girl like a book, your
library card has expired.
 -Source unknown

 

There is no greater authorial sin than releasing a book without an index. It
should even be made an indictable offense.

 -S.R. Ranganathan in Library Book Selection

 

Those of us who are blamed when old for reading children's books were blamed
when children for reading books too old for us. No reader worth his salt
trots along in obedience to a time table.

 -C.S. Lewis

 

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be
chewed and digested.

 -Francis Bacon

 

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new
friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.

 -Anonymous, Chinese saying

 

 

Above, a few of my signature line saved quotes on books, reading, libraries.

 

Best,

Michael

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P. Michael McCulley aka DrWeb
drweb at san.rr.com
San Diego, CA
http://drweb.typepad.com/

Quote of the Moment:
 I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don't
interest me. They have got no charm of novelty. - Oscar Wilde
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 7:15:34 PM 

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