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Embrace Love
Saturday, June 5th, 2010Photograph of ‘Embrace Love’ taken on 1st April 2010
Quotes about Books V
Thursday, July 31st, 2008The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man: nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still [...]
Quotes About Books II
Monday, July 28th, 2008A good book is the purest essence of a human soul. ~ Thomas Carlyle Books, books, books had found the secret of a garret-room piled high with cases in my father’s name; Piled high, packed large, –where, creeping in and out among the giant fossils of my past, like some small nimble mouse between the [...]
Quotes About Reading III
Saturday, July 26th, 2008Learning to read has been reduced to a process of mastering a series of narrow, specific, hierarchical skills. Where armed-forces recruits learn the components of a rifle or the intricacies of close order drill “by the numbers,” recruits to reading learn its mechanics sound by sound and word by word. ~ Jacquelyn Gross It is [...]
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