The Last Bookaneer
Matthew Pearl
Top 10 Best Quotes
“Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.”
“Imagine! It is the real power of a book--not what is on the page, but what happens when a reader takes the pages in, makes it part of himself. That is the definition of literature.”
“When they dreamed of turning iron and metal into gold, they called it alchemy. The much more far-fetched dream of turning bound sheafs of plain paper into fortunes, they call publishing.”
“A man's library opens up his character to the world.”
“Before long, I had lost my youth and my patience for indulging others. Books were everything in life; books were better than wine.”
“What they don't realize is that sequels are bound to disappoint those who have waited for them.”
“They always blamed my reading, you know, for my having fewer friends than my brother and for my weak eyes, never thinking that because I had weak eyes and because I was shy, having a book at the ready rescued me.”
“exaggeration is the octopus of the English language”
“An obscure character by the name of Belial. He is interpreted as a minion of the devil by some scholars, but that is wrong. It is ignorance. The name means, literally speaking, 'one who cannot be yoked,' and it is really every one of us who takes control of our own destiny while others blow in the wind. We may be punished for it, but we would never do it another way. We are all Belials.”
“You are always better off to read a book, anyway, than to meet the person behind it.”
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Book Keywords:
language, destiny, octopus, library, devil, take-control-of-your-fate, belial
