Books Quote by Robert Pogue Harrison Download Open image ““If nothing else, a house is a place to keep books in.”” — Robert Pogue Harrison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Home
“Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A home without books is like a room without windows.” — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
“(One day, when I own a house, I’ll keep a full library of books. Books are different from other possessions—they’re more like friends.)” — Blake Mycoskie Copy Share Image
“I bet you a million dollars there are less than five books in this whole house. What kind of life can you have in… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“I don't even know what a room without books looks like.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“I have books in every corner of my house. 'Cleaning' my books is a pointless endeavor.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“Irony that does not deem itself ironic is the most dangerous irony of all.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Human beings, in other words, are always already dead. This proleptic knowledge of finitude predetermines their most creative as well as their most destructive… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“And nothing . . . disquiets a rationalist more than a forest.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Soul and habitat--we are finally in a position to know this--are correlates of one another.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Walls, no less than writing, define civilization. They are monuments of resistance against time, like writing itself. . .” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“The destructive impulse with respect to nature all too often has psychological causes that go beyond the greed for material resource or the need… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Our basic human institutions - religion, matrimony, and burial, also law, language, literature, and whatever else relies on the transmission of legacy - are… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“When I’m critical of modern approaches to ecology, I’m really trying to remind my reader of the long relationship that Western civilization has had… — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
“Walls protect, divide, distinguish; above all they abstract . The basic activities that sustain life . . . take place beyond walls.” — Robert Pogue Harrison Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
