Stan Barstow famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.
-- Stan Barstow

#Reading #World #May
The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.
-- Stan Barstow

#Summer #Weather #Laughing
You can't love a person till you know him or her inside out, until you've lived with them and shared experience: sadness, joy, living - you've got to share living before you can find love. Being in love doesn't last, but you can find love to take its place.
-- Stan Barstow

#Sadness #Being In Love #Love Is
Peopleâ€™s lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, whatâ€™s underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.
-- Stan Barstow

#Real #People #Sometimes
People’s lives are often other than they seem to be on the surface. And sometimes, what’s underneath and hidden is the best part of all, the part of real value.
-- Stan Barstow

#Real #People #Sometimes

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.
Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.
Very young children eat their books, literally devouring their contents. This is one reason for the scarcity of first editions of Alice in Wonderland and other favorites of the nursery.
To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.
A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones.
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
A bona fide spiritual master, under the guidance of authorities, can turn anyone to the Vaisnava cult so that naturally he may come to the topmost position of a brahmana.
If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster
You always have to make positive choices as an actor, even when you're playing someone who may not be doing the best things.

Stan Barstow famous quotes

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