Josh

“Reading is still both fundamental and essential. And what, above all, a teacher can communicate to you is what to read and how to read. How to read! For the art of reading is in danger of being lost.”
― Ludwig Lewisohn, What is This Jewish Heritage?

“כ׳האָב געבעטן וווּנדער אָנשטאָט גליק און דו האָסט
זיי מיר געגעבן.”
― Abraham Joshua Heschel, The Ineffable Name of God: Man

“We might use the term inner library to characterize that set of books . . . around which every personality is constructed, and which then shapes each person’s individual relationship to books and to other people. Specific titles figure in these private libraries, but . . . they are primarily composed of fragments of forgotten and imaginary books through which we apprehend the world.”
― Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

“I was lucky. I got away with it.” He meant that his bad start, his mistakes, the things that might have wrecked him, had somehow combined to establish him. He had almost fallen in with that part of humanity of which he was frequently mindful . . . the part that did not get away with it—the lost, the outcast, the overcome, the effaced, the ruined.”
― Saul Bellow, The Victim