“I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! — When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Quote of the Day
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Quote of the Day
“Words – so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne
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Famous Last Words
“Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven’t said enough!”
-Karl Marx
A humorous and ironic quote due to the fact that they have become exactly what he feared. I have never read his books, but they are definitely on the top of my wish list!
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“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.”
― Abraham Lincoln
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“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Quote of the Day
“It has always seemed strange to me that in our endless discussions about education so little stress is laid on the pleasure of becoming an educated person, the enormous interest it adds to life. To be able to be caught up into the world of thought—that is to be educated. ”
― Edith Hamilton
NO private library is complete WITHOUT books on mythology, especially Edith Hamilton’s book Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes! If you do not have it, get one!
P.S. – The Golden Bough is another must have, especially for books such as Heart of Darkness. In the movie Apocalypse Now! (based off the book) they made a point by having a copy of it in the movie!
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Famous Last Words
“I were miserable if I might not die…
Thy kingdom come,
Thy will be done.”
-John Donne
In my opinion, Donne was one of the BEST poets that ever lived. Great last words.
Quote of the Day
“Catherine Earnshaw, may you not rest as long as I am living. You said I killed you–haunt me then. The murdered do haunt their murderers. I believe–I know that ghosts have wandered the earth. Be with me always–take any form–drive me mad. Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! It is unutterable! I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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