"The time to read is any time: no apparatus, no appointment of time and place, is necessary."

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Source : Holbrook Jackson (1950). “The Anatomy of Bibliomania”, p.232, University of Illinois Press

Holbrook Jackson

“There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.”
“The evil of the world is made possible by nothing but the sanction you give it.”
“I have triumphed over both life and death because I no longer desire to live, nor do I any longer fear to die.”
“Nothing can be 100 percent sustainable, but every effort makes an impact.”
“There's no cure for getting depressed. There's no cure for self-loathing or periods of it. But figure out enough about it so that when it happens, you can get over it and keep moving and just accomplish more.”
“The rumble of a subway train, the rattle of the taxis.”
“Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.”
“Linda asked that morning what it was about Charlotteâ€™s Web that Ally particularly liked; maybe it would help to think about that, since it was Allyâ€™s model book. â€œI like the family that comes together in the barn,â€ Ally said without hesitation. â€œI like that they arenâ€™t all the same thing; one is human and oneâ€™s a spider and oneâ€™s a pig. I like that it has nothing to do with blood relations, and everything to do with love.”

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