Logo
Quote by Ross MacDonald
The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind

The walls of books around him, dense with the past, formed a kind of insulation against the present world and its disasters. – Ross MacDonald

Other quotes by Ross MacDonald
No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Books
category

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution — such call I good books. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Books

The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation. – Aharon Appelfeld

Category:
Books

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested. – Francis Bacon

Category:
Books

When you reread a classic you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than was there before. – Clifton Fadiman

Category:
Books

Random Quotes

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether its business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you dont love what youre doing and you cant give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. Youll be an old man before you know it. – Al Lopez

Category:
best

You may know the intractability of a disease by its long list of remedies. – Alonzo Clark

Category:
Medical

Financial literacy is an issue that should command our attention because many Americans are not adequately organizing finances for their education, healthcare and retirement. – Ron Lewis

Category:
Education

One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul. – Honore de Balzac

Category:
Anniversary