Becoming Quote by Arturo Pérez-Reverte Download Open image “Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Becoming Book Books Collectors Joining Life Religion
Real bibliophiles do not put their books on shelves for people to look at or handle. They have no desire to show off their… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction. — Richard Paul Evans Copy Share Image
To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I've never actually been a collector. I like the learning-curve, but I buy things, sell them to finance other things. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector. — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from life or… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“One day he reads his friend's novel and discovers that Ishmael's account and his own memories of what happened are completely different. So he… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“You can still turn back, he told himself. In that way, none of what happened has ever happened, and none of what will take… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“And then it struck her that life was sometimes so beautiful that it didn't seem like life at all.” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“However, one certainty floated in the air: that night, at the end of a conversation that should have brought them closer, something had been… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“What happens is that Fate, which enjoys spicing things up with a dash of the unforeseen, determines that everything must have an end, and… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is like an expensive restaurant where, sooner or later, someone always hands you the bill, which is not to say that you should… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china. I think… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“And which devil do you prefer? Dante's?" "No. Much too terrifying. Too medieval for my taste." "Mephistopheles?" "Not him, either. He's too pleased with… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“Don Jaime relied on this to conserve what he defined as serenity: peace of mind and soul, the only fragment of wisdom to which… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
If the media is sending girls the message that their value lies in their bodies, this can only leave them feeling disempowered and distract… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
But I already saw no great difference between the psyche and spirituality. To amass knowledge without becoming wise is not my idea of progress… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
It's easy to say, let's go in and get the bad guys. But you have a divided country of Sunnis and Shias. The United… — Tulsi Gabbard Copy Share Image
The path I choose through the maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one… — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
Becoming famous is a really shocking thing, especially when you don't have aspirations to it. It got to the point where I would try… — Alison Moyet Copy Share Image
When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer. — Olivier Theyskens Copy Share Image
One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
The dream of coming back is becoming a reality. A lot of the uncertainty about the future has been cleared up. A lot of… — Paul Tagliabue Copy Share Image
I'm getting to a point where everything is becoming streamlined in my life. I'm learning how to stand onstage for two hours and play… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
The term 'Pre-Raphaelite' is in danger of becoming one of the most misused tags in art history — Christopher Wood Copy Share Image
We are somehow the children of the planet, we are somehow its finest hour; we bind time, we bind the past, we anticipate the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
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