"There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if they had had too much to drink and did not really trust themselves. These gave out a smell of must and solid brownness which was most secure."

-- T. H. White

#Book Quotes #Smell Quotes #Too Much Quotes

“As you get older it's more confusing. Suddenly, there's more pressure to fit in to your assigned gender.”
“What went wrong is we had tremendous concentration in the sense we put a lot of our money to work against U.S. real estate. We got here by lending money, and putting money to work in the U.S. real estate market, in a size that was probably larger than what we ought to have done on a diversification basis.”

Source : "Charlie Rose" with Charlie Rose, charlierose.com. November 25, 2008.
“The love of a wife to her husband may begin from the supply of her necessities, but afterwards she may love him also for the sweetness of his person; so the soul first loves Christ for salvation but when she is brought to Him and finds what sweetness there is in Him then she loves Him for Himself.”
“The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.”
“Playing for Arsenal at any level is something to be proud of so being in the squad when they won the double and winning the Cup in 1979 was special. The boys were a terrific bunch.”
“The idea of recontextualizing images from different eras to express larger ideas about modern times was very exciting to me. That archival aesthetic is the foundation of my filmmaking style.”
“To think and to be fully alive are the same.”

Source : Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry.”

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