"There's more to life than books, you know But not much more."
S. Morrissey, Handsome Devil
Books at bedtime...
The One I Left Behind - Jennifer McMahon
"Wouldn't it be dreadful to live in a country where they did not have tea?"
Noel Coward
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Objets du désir
Dragonfly Summer - Eva Rice
The Wind off the Small Isles - Mary Stewart
"...All that we see or seem
is but a dream within a dream"
Edgar Allan Poe
"Så länge jag förblir vid liv och god hälsa kommer jag att känna starkt för stilistik i prosa, älska jordens yta och njuta av konkreta objekt och av små brottstycken av värdelös information."
George Orwell
"The novel, which is a work of art, exists, not by its resemblances to life, which are forced and material...but by its immensurable difference from life..." R. L. Stevenson
"I wasted time and now doth time waste me". W. Shakespeare, 12th Night
"Den som äger en trädgård och en boksamling saknar intet" Cicero
"Noting is ever settled until it is settled right." R. Kipling
"My reputation as a ladies man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone." L. Cohen
"This is no time for ease and comfort. It is the time to dare and endure."
Winston Churchill
"This happy breed of men, this little world This precious stone, set in the silver sea Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house Against envy of less happier lands This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England ..."
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