Poster at the library
I'm at a public library, pretending to study. (Pretending only for myself, it seems.) In front of me is a poster with the following quotes.
Read at whim! Read at whim! Randall Jarrell.
There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate. Montesquieu.
Fiction is art and art is triumph over chaos...to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering snd stupendous dream. John Cheever.
...It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish. S.I. Hayakawa.
When I get a little money, I buy books: and if any is left, I buy food and clothes. Erasmus.
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. George Bernard Shaw.
Read, read, read. Read everything. William Faulkner.
In literature, as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. Christian Morgenstern.

1 Comments:
Oh, me too Erasmus, except it's books, booze and makeup, then clothes, then food. Then rent.
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