How can we cash out-of-town checks when don't know whether a town's still there?
Pat FrankTags: books dark-humor pat-frank
Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them.
Augusta ScattergoodTags: libraries books civil-rights race mississippi-authors
For the rest of the afternoon, Miss Bloom smiled almost as bright as the big yellow sun shining through the front picture window. Her library was filled up with people who loved books.
Augusta ScattergoodTags: libraries books happiness civil-rights-movement mississippi-authors
Karl Marx said, “The task is not just to understand the world but to change it.” A variant to keep in mind is that if you want to change the world you’d better try to understand it. That doesn’t mean listening to a talk or reading a book, though that’s helpful sometimes. You learn from participating. You learn from others. You learn from the people you’re trying to organize. We all have to gain the understanding and the experience to formulate and implement ideas.
Noam ChomskyTags: reading books experience learning
Alas! Where is human nature so weak as in the book-store?
Henry Ward BeecherEvery new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.
Vincent StarrettTags: reading books collecting
Academic masochism reflects a metaphysical prejudice that the truth should be a hard-won treasure, that what is read or learnt easily must therefore be flighty and inconsequential. The truth should be like a mount to be scaled, it is dangerous, obscure and demanding. Under the light of the library reading room, the academics' motto reads: the more a text makes me suffer, the truer it must be.
Alain de BottonTags: truth books love alain-de-botton
I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.
Jennifer EstepI might not be physically strong.
But I do believe that to survive, I need to be strong-willed.
Which is more important in life?
Tags: strength books courage survive strength-and-courage
Time…
Once it’s gone, it belongs to the past.
We do not hold on to the now, and
We do not treasure the future…
We keep receiving this present, but we never open and cherish it until it is too late.
Until it comes no more.
Tags: inspirational books future present appreciation life-and-living
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