"What did it say when a man had fewer clothes than books?"

-- Abraham Verghese

#Book Quotes #Men Quotes #Clothes Quotes

“Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.”
“Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence.”

Source : Jan Morris (1989). “Pleasures of a tangled life”, Vintage
“A bachelor May thrive by observation on a little, A single life's no burthen: but to draw In yokes is chargeable, and will require A double maintenance.”
“All history teaches us that these questions that we think the pressing ones will be transmuted before they are answered, that they will be replaced by others, and that the very process of discovery will shatter the concepts that we today use to describe our puzzlement.”
“The characters do have a life of their own; it's weird.”
“If I can sell tickets to my movies like Red Sonja or Last Action Hero, you know I can sell just about anything.”
“Come on, a 25-page digression on god? You canâ€™t have that kind of thing, cut it out!â€”
“The Bible was the only book he read. He didn't read it often but when he did he wore his mother's glasses. They tired his eyes so that after a short time he was always obliged to stop.”

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