The hope is always here, always alive, but only your fierce caring can fan it into a fire to warm the world.
Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else-pictures, furniture, china. I think you understand what it is to be a passionate collector of...
Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it's for life.
One by one they were all becoming shades. Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.
Few people, very few, have a treasure, and if you do you must hang on to it. You must not let yourself be waylaid and have it taken from you.
He makes His ministers a flame of fire. Am I ignitable? God deliver me from the dread asbestos of 'other things'.
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...
We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.
Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...