Leah Price famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Correction of Earlier Entry: 8/01/12We read over the shoulders of giants; books place us in dialogue not just with an author but with other readers.
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A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.
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Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.
-- Leah Price
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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
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Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure 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.
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Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it.
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The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.
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Rodeo Drive is a giant butterscotch sundae.
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Put your shoulder to the wheel.
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Kat!†Gabrielle hissed. “You’re going to get caught." The smile Kat flashed over her shoulder was almost wicked. “I know.
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There's really no honor in proving that you can carry the entire load on your own shoulders. Andit's lonely.
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Got demons on both shoulders.
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After all, where can the glorious, the goofy, and the god-like stand shoulder to shoulder?
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