"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television."

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Source : "The whole world in a community". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

John McGahern

#Book Quotes #Boys Quotes #Advice Quotes

“One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.”

Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2017). “Earthly Signs: Moscow Diaries, 1917-1922”, p.154, New York Review of Books
“They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time.”
“Sweet May hath come to love us, Flowers, trees, their blossoms don; And through the blue heavens above us The very clouds move on.”
“Pebble is a piece of sacred ground. They say it's the greatest meeting of land and water in the world. This course was heaven designed - just the way it fits on the land.”
“Sometimes you need to distance yourself to see things clearly.”
“I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.”
“We are an integral part of beauty, not something separate.”
“The rich, sweet smell of the hayricks rose to his chamber window; the hundred perfumes of the little flower-garden beneath scented the air around; the deep-green meadows shone in the morning dew that glistened on every leaf as it trembled in the gentle air: and the birds sang as if every sparkling drop were a fountain of inspiration to them.”

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