quotes about Bookcases

last updated: November 28, 2023

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
-- Anatole Broyard

Source : "About Books, Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling". New York Times, February 22, 1987.

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“That is the magic of travel. You leave your home secure in your own knowledge and identity. But as you travel, the world in all it's richness intervenes. You meet people you could not invent; you see scenes you could not imagine. Your own world, which was so large as to consume your whole life, becomes smaller and smaller until it is only one tiny dot in time and space. You return a different person.”

Source : Kent Nerburn (1999). “Letters to My Son: A Father's Wisdom on Manhood, Women, Life and Love”, p.111, New World Library
“You get tired of always wondering anew why life has to take the place of youth.”
“Islam will be destroyed by the mistakes of scholars, the arguments of the hypocrites who misinterpret the Qurâ€™an to support their views and misleading rulers.”
“...in the woods, if you stopped, if you grew still, you'd hear a whole new set of sounds, wind rasping through silhouetted leaves and the cries and chatter of blue jays and brown thrashers and redbirds and sparrows, the calling of crows and hawks, squirrels barking, frogs burping, the far braying of dogs, armadillos snorkeling through dead leaves...”
“Two-legged creatures we are supposed to love as we love ourselves. The four-legged, also, can come to seem pretty important. But six legs are too many from the human standpoint.”
“Maybe all the schemes of the devil were nothing compared to what man could think up.”
“See the Light in Others, and Treat Them as if That is All you See.”
“you must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame; how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?”
“Every culture, if its natural development is not too much affected by political restrictions, experiences a perpetual renewal of the formative urge, and out of that comes an ever growing diversity of creative activity. Every successful piece of work stirs the desire for greater perfection and deeper inspiration; each new form becomes the herald of new possibilities of development.”

Source : Rudolf Rocker (2004). “Anarcho-Syndicalism: Theory and Practice”, p.17, AK Press
“Integrity is the most valuable and respected quality of leadership. Always keep your word.”