What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They buy something that theyve been told is good, make an unsuccessful attempt to read it, and… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel,… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. They… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller,… — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
