"I've had many more thousands of books in……" — Lewis Buzbee
"I've had many more thousands of books in my possession than my shelves at home would indicate. At one time, I tried to keep them all, but that quest soon became impossible; I now only keep the ones I'm sure I'm going to reread, the ones I'm definitely going to read before I die, and the ones I can't bear to part with because of an aesthetic or emotional attachment."
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16 Quotes by Lewis Buzbee
Lewis Buzbee has 16 quotes on this site.
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Books were in the world; the world was in books.
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I am fatally attracted to all bookstores.
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Watching a scene from a film in slow motion is possible, but there’s an unreal air to it; reading a…
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Books connect us with others, but that connection is created in solitude, one reader in one chair hearing one writer,…
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Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a…
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Rereading a favorite novel first read 5, 10, or 20 years ago, is a measure of our travel, how far…
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Books are slow. They require time; they are written slowly, published slowly, and read slowly.
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The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged.
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The book is a uniquely durable object, one that can be fully enjoyed without being damaged. A book doesn't require…
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Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.
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The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we…
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"It’s not as if I don’t have anything to read; there’s a tower of perfectly good unread books next to…
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More Aesthetic Quotes
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At one of the annual conventions of the American Society for Aesthetics much confusion arose when the Society for Anesthetics…
— Rudolf Arnheim
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to…
— Paul Auster
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We're dabbling in eugenics all the time, breeding ideal crops to replace less aesthetic or nutritious or hardy varieties; leveling…
— Diane Ackerman
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I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
— J. G. Ballard
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
— J. G. Ballard
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I've handled colour as a man should behave. You may conclude that I consider ethics and aesthetics as one.
— Josef Albers
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Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable…
— William S. Burroughs
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
— A. S. Byatt
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I think we need the feminine qualities of leadership, which include attention to aesthetics and the environment, nurturing, affection, intuition…
— Deepak Chopra
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I think decor says a lot about someone's social position, their taste, their sensibility, their work - and also about…
— Pedro Almodovar
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Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic…
— Richard Courant
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A designer is a planner with an aesthetic sense.
— Bruno Munari
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