Friday 22 May 2015

Book Quotes of the Week



"Books, I found had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future". Jim Bishop

"Writers open our hearts and minds, and give us maps to our own selves." Alain de Botton

"Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the reading watiing to be explored." J.F. Hermans

"Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism; when a great one goes, like the New York Herald Tribune, history itself is denied a devoted witness." Richard Kluger

"Knowledge is free at your library. Just bring your own container." N.N.

[If anyone can tell me the originator of this quote, I'd be very thankful and would happily include the name.]

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