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Thursday, August 22, 2013

Quotes: Reading and Books

I collect quotes in an extreme way. I care not whence they hail: card games, novels, websites, Twitter - it's all one. So here are some about books for while I'm working on the long-overdue books-with-maps rant and the Paradise Lost re-read + commentary. 

1. I divide all readers into two classes; those who read to remember and those who read to forget. – William Lyon Phelps

2. Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.[1] The Fault in Our Stars 

3. [He was] carrying a satchel full of books…as if running out of books was tantamount to running out of air. - The Bells

4. In short, he so immersed himself in those romances that he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading, his brains dried up to such a degree that he lost the use of his reason. – Don Quixote

5. Everything the wise woman learned she wrote in a book, and when the pages were black with ink, she took white ink and began again. - Magic, the Gathering

6. And as we all know when it comes to fiction, all true love begins with hate.- foreveryoungadult.com

7. [T]he music and literature of a country cannot be altered without major political and social changes… - The Republic

8. I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves. – Anna Quindlen

9. Eat your veggies, stay in school, burn everything but Shakespeare.[2] Rango

10. [W]hen she is in a very smart gown she looks like an edition de luxe of a bad French novel. - The Picture of Dorian Gray

11. My gripe is not with lovers of the truth, but with truth herself. What…consolation is there in truth, compared to a story? – The Thirteenth Tale

12. There are three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. – Lawrence Durrell

13. War? Send in the novelists. A series of gruesome murders? Listen for the tramp of poets. …Why did it happen, this mad act of Nature, this crazed human moment? Well, at least it produced art. Perhaps, in the end, that’s what catastrophe is for. - A History of the World in 10 ½  Chapters


 xo, 
Devo




[1] This book references itself here, in my opinion. I highly recommend it.

[2] But not actually. Shax is great, but book burning is really not a thing I support.

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