"The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."

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Source : "About Books, Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling". New York Times, February 22, 1987.

Anatole Broyard

#Portraits Quotes #Bookcases Quotes

“Eaten bread is forgotten.”
“My karma's the comma that puts you inside of a coma, Hyphen, dot, dot, semi-colon, leave you semi-swollen. Question mark, you pregnant? Oh you're not? I love you, period.”

Source : Song: Wordsmith
“There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."”
“Take hold of the future or the future will take hold of you - be futurewise.”
“Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.”

Source : Frank Capra (1971). “The Name Above the Title: An Autobiography”
“God does not treat us as our sins deserve, man treats us as our sins deserve.”
“A complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the oneself that there is no self left to die.”

Source : Bernard Berenson (2013). “Sketch For A Self Portrait”, p.15, Read Books Ltd
“Y'know, I realize that George W. Bush is an asshole, but don't judge all us yankees by the actions of our government. Remember, he didn't win the popular vote so it's not entirely our fault!”

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