Weekly Geeks A Quote a Day

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My quote for today:

"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."

Robert A. Heinlein

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Weekly Geeks A Quote a Day

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My quote for today:

"She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save by the frequent and plentiful acquisition of books. This passion is more common, and more powerful, than most people suppose. Book lovers are thought by unbookish people to be gentle and unworldly, and perhaps a few of them are so. But there are others who will lie and scheme and steal to get books as wildly and unconscionably as the dope-taker in pursuit of his drug. They may not want the books to read immediately, or at all; they want them to possess, to range on their shelves, to have at command."

Robertson Davies (1913-1995)

Weekly Geeks A Quote a Day

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My quote for today:

"A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious, and marvellous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a lichen."

Henry David Thoreau

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My quote for today:

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Albert Einstein

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My quote for today:

"And left alone to sleep within a shuttered room, with the thick sunlight printed in bars upon the floor, unfathomable loneliness and sadness crept through him: he saw his life down the solemn vista of a forest aisle, and he knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages. Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one, that imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in that insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never."

Thomas Wolfe from Look Homeward Angel pg.31.

This is my favourite author and has been since I read this book forty years ago. He writes beautiful novels and stories that I love. You can't Go Home Again, Of Time and the River, From Death to Morning, and A Stone, A Leaf, A Door are the main works. I highly recommend trying him.

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Weekly Geeks A Quote a Day

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My quote for Sunday:

"Perhaps God has forbidden men to know His ways, for if they did know the full extent of His goodness, and the magnitude of our rejection of it, they would be so disheartened they would abandon all hope of redemption, and die of grief."

Iain Pears from An Instance of the Fingerpost, a historical mystery set at Oxford University, England, during the 17th century.

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