Quote by G.K. Chesterton
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and a tired man who wants a book to read. – G.K. Chesterton

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Journalism largely consists in saying “Lord Jones is dead” to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive. – G.K. Chesterton

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And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. – G.K. Chesterton

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Rainbows
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Far more seemly were it for thee to have thy study full of books, than thy purse full of money. – John Lyly

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Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. – Jessamyn West

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Catalogues of imaginary libraries are an obscure but fruitful area of collecting. The tradition of imaginary books, which exist only within other books, goes back at least to Rabelais, who invented a list of book titles for the Abbey of Saint-Victor in Gargantua and Pantagruel (c.1532). – Emi Hastings, “Catalogues of Imaginary Libraries,” 2014

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How vast an estate it is that we came into as the intellectual heirs of all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead! What a heritage of stored wealth! What perishing poverty of mind we should be left in without it! – J.N. Larned

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I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building. – Ian Mcewan

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High and low culture come together in all Post Modern art, and American poetry is not excluded from this. – Diane Wakoski

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Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down others work. – Ann Rule

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Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. – George Bernard Shaw

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