"Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation."

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Source : FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 15, 2013

Richard Russo

#Library Quotes #Bookstores Quotes #World Quotes

“I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.”
“Talking much is a sign of vanity, for the one who is lavish with words is cheap in deeds.”
“A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.”
“When it comes to rapacious 19th century capitalism, my family's hands are clean.”
“I work best in rhyme and meter. I was most confident of myself in that way.”
“The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.”

Source : John Millington Synge, Ann Saddlemyer (1998). “Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays”, p.28, Oxford University Press, USA
“On my days off, I love denim cut off shorts with gladiator sandals and crop tops.”
“If those friends who blame...could see what we see, and feel what we feel, they would be the first to wonder that those redeemed by Christ should be so backward in devotion, and know so little of the spirit of self-sacrifice. They would be ashamed of the hesitations that hinder us. But we must remember that it was not by interceding for the world in glory that Jesus saved it. He gave Himself. Our prayers for the evangelization of the world are but a bitter irony as we only give of our superfluity and draw back before the sacrifice of ourselves.”

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