I think in another 100 years that book will probably go up in value times 10.
Books Quotes
Samuel Johnson is on this page more than once for good reason. In The Rambler (1750) he wrote that no place gives a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Boswell (1791) has him saying that a man ought to read just as inclination leads him, because what he reads as a task will do him little good. Alberto Manguel, Emerson and Northrop Frye are among the most-quoted writers here, which is what you would expect from people who spent their working lives reading.
Two entries are flagged as misattributed. The quip about a manuscript that is both good and original, with the good parts not original and the original parts not good, is credited to Johnson. “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!” is credited to General Patton.
Literature is in other countries the bed-rock of history, in India it is often a snare.
I love bands that have thrown the book out the window and do exactly what feels right to them.
These days, love is not what we used to read in books or movies.
"I think of books as places where the soul can encounter itself."
"Literature and cinema are partners in preserving the memory of a people."
"Literature creates a space where silence can finally begin to speak."
Hymn-books are non-essentials to the preaching of Jesus Christ.
My feeling is that any text written with informed African sensibility belongs to African literature.
With various readings stored his empty skull,
Learn'd without sense, and venerably dull.