Jeg tenker egentlig andre veien. Jeg synes det er spesielt viktig å legge de bøkene jeg låner på biblioteket eller av andre her inne, fordi jeg synes det er morsomt å ha oversikt over de bøkene jeg har lest og etter en stund kanskje glemmer noen av de jeg ikke fysisk har i bokhylla.
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
The bright hopes of youth had to be paid for at such a bitter price of disillusionment.
I was afraid of burglars and thugs and snakes and fires and Jack the Ripper, when I should have been afraid of thirty years in a bank and a take -over bid and a premature retirement
How briefley and to the point people always seem to speak on the stage or on the screen, while in real life we stumble from phrase to phrase with endless repetition.
He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an acceptance of reality.
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize the inevitable selfishness of humanity.
Philip was a good listener; though he often thought of clever things to say it was seldom till after the opportunity to say them had passed.
5 bøker ble det på meg. Bøker skrevet på 1920, 1930, 1940, 1950 og 1980-tallet. Handlingene tok meg med til London, Paris, Rivieraen og Cuba.
Den beste boka jeg leste i januar var helt klart The Razor's Edge av W. Somerset Maugham.
Even the top of a bus can be exciting, especially when one possesses an uncomfortable inside seat, and is filled with fierce determination to obtain a seat next to the railing.
It was extraordinary that, whenever he tried to take a siesta, his thoughts were always so depressing. Perhaps the small hours of the afternoon were in affinity with those of the night and released similar bogeys.
We all find faults, but those who look for gratitude find the ugliest.
To expect the worst from people and events is to enjoy delicious surprices; to expect the best is to receive disappointments.
Mine mål er:
The lesson he had learnt, that all of us are alone, fighting for ourselves in a world that is daily growing more savage
There are times when [...] the remaining years, forty or fifty of them, streatch out ahead like the steps of an infinitely tiering staircase.
American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.
You attach more importance to money than I do.
I can well believe it I answered [...] It's given me what I value almost more than anything else in life - independence.
You can't think what a comfort it's been to me to think that if I wanted to I could tell anyone in the world to go to hell.