George Dyer quotes

“Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.”
-- George Dyer

Source : George Dyer (1814). “History of the University and colleges of Cambridge: including notices relating to the founders and eminent men”, p.6

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“A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.”

“Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.”

“Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.”

“It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.”

“I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.”

“In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.”

Source : Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.66, Vintage Canada

“For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.”

“Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.”

Source : Ada Leverson (1907). “The Twelfth Hour”

“In the lack of judgment great harm arises, but one vote cast can set right a house.”

“For a murderous blow let murderous blow atone.”