"I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly."

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Gina Barreca

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Intimate Quotes

“When my kids wanted to give up on things, I wouldn't let them, and those are lifelong lessons.”
“It is not faith in Christ that saves you (though faith is the instrument) - it is Christ's blood and merits.”
“Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a bell tower, read a history of Byzantium, stare for one hour at the face of Leonardo da Vinci's 'Madonna dei fusi.' You open, as in childhood, and--for a time--receive this world. There's visceral aspect, too--the huntress who is free. Free to go, free to return home bringing memories to lay on the hearth.”
“The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading.”

Source : Vernon Lee (1907). “Hortus Vitae: And Limbo”
“Victory is gay only back home. Up front it is joyless.”
“I would rather work with five people who really believe in what they are doing rather than five hundred who can't see the point.”

Source : "Building a Better Business". Book by Patrick Dixon, 2005.
“It is a curious fact that with Through the Looking-Glass the faculty of making book illustrations departed from me. ... I have done nothing in that direction since.”

Source : "The Life and Letters of Lewis Carroll". Book by Stuart Dodgson Collingwood (p. 146), 1898.
“Bernie Sanders is like those liberal members of the German National Socialist Party during the WWII, or of the Italian Fascist movement during Mussolini. They'd do much for their own workers and peasants, socially... as long as funds were flowing in from the countries plundered by their imperialism.”

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