#boo

They lived freely among the students, they argued with the men over philosophical, sociological and artistic matters, they were just as good as the men themselves: only better, since they were women. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#men

Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven, and nobody gets no land. It’s just in their head. They’re all the time talkin’ about it, but it’s jus’ in their head. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#heaven #land #men

Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book! ↗

— Swami Vivekananda

#god #religion #men

Most of us who turn to any subject with love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love. ↗

— George Eliot

#inspiration #knowledge #passion #inspirational

Men who read a lot have a more sensitive disposition, added Fowler. [...] I did not know what to say to this. Maybe reading is a sort of curse is all I mean, concluded Fowler. Maybe it's better for a man to stay inside his own mind. Amen, I felt like saying, although I do not know why. ↗

— Dan Simmons

#inner-world #melancholy #men #reading #men

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists -- with it all things are possible. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#imagination #inspirational #key #imagination

Be the winner in your life! ↗

— Tae Yun Kim

#inspirational #quotes #self-esteem #winner #inspirational

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors. ↗

— Siri Hustvedt

#privacy #reading-secrets #men

Being a writer is a good, good thing. ↗