Julie Schumacher famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief - call it what you will - than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.
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.
Books are the basis; purity is the force; preaching is the essence; utility is the principle.
And malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man.
The buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching toward infinity...
My depth of purse is not so great Nor yet my bibliophilic greed, That merely buying doth elate: The books I buy I like to read: Still e'en when dawdling in a mead, Beneath a cloudless summer sky, By bank of Thames, or Tyne, or Tweed, The books I read â€” I like to buy.
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits.
Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.
Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.

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