"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."

-- Anthony Burgess

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Substitutes Quotes

“Wine ...moderately drunken it doth quicken a man's wits, It doth comfort the heart.”

Source : Andrew Boorde (1936). “The wisdom of Andrew Boorde”
“All creation necessarily ends in this: Creators, powerless, fleeing from the things they have wrought.”
“I feel when you walk into somebody's apartment on Fifth Avenue or house in Malibu and you see a Basquiat, a Warhol, a Richard Prince, you say to yourself, '$700,000, $2.2 million, $350,000...' To me that is completely uninteresting. I'd rather go to a house where there's great art and I have no idea who the work is by.”
“I can't censor myself; it's really important for me to say how I feel.”
“Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.”
“You know, I never knew if I had any talent when I started in this business. My first job was being a page at The Tonight Show. I saw Jack Paar come out one night and sit on the edge of his desk and talk about what hed done the night before. I thought, I can do that! I used to do that on a street corner in the Bronx with all my buddies.”

Source : "Jerry Seinfeld Interviews Regis Philbin on His Television Career". Interview with Jerry Seinfeld, www.newsweek.com. November 13, 2011.
“When he is wounded, I bleed. {page 262 of John Adams}”
“I think all kids need snacks. Mine are fruit machines. I give them things like apple slices, berries and melon. Do I let them eat ice cream? Absolutely. But not every day.”

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