"What a blessing it is to love books."

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Source : Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Solitary Summer”, p.16, Elizabeth von Arnim

Elizabeth von Arnim

#Book Quotes #Blessing Quotes

“The really intelligent are as abnormal as the defective. The great masses of men are rather mediocre, and those above and below are exceptions.”
“An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.”
“As far as music school goes, I walked through Berkelee one time.”
“Sometimes I wake up at night and go, 'Oh, damn! Here we go again! What were they thinking? They gave me this role; don't they know I'm faking it?”
“For a long time we have thought we were better than the living world, and now some of us tend to think we are worse, that everything we touch turns to soot. But neither perspective is healthy. We have to remember how it feels to have equal standing in the world, to be "between the mountain and the ant . . . part and parcel of creations," as the Iroquois traditionalist Oren Lyons says.”
“Do what you do and mean it every second of the day. If you don't, you're living someone else's life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Whose order is shut inside the structure of a sentence?”

Source : Susan Howe (2007). “My Emily Dickinson”, p.11, New Directions Publishing
“It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.”

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