“Where is human nature so weak as in a bookstore?”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
“that when one grows up with the kinds of privileges you have, it’s easy to forget that not everyone had such a cushy childhood. It doesn’t make you a brat—necessarily—but it does mean you’re less likely to understand how the real world works. Money has a way of sparing the haves the kinds of trials the have-nots grapple with on a daily basis. There’s nothing you can’t buy or arrange. Nothing out of reach.”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
“He said all truly good writing—fiction or nonfiction—has a heartbeat, a life force that comes from the writer, like an invisible cord connecting them to the reader. Without it, the work is dead on arrival.”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
“shruti texts do not have a human agent as a composer. Examples of shruti texts are Vedas, Brahmanas, Aranyakas and Upanishads.”
― The Bhagavad Gita For Millennials
― The Bhagavad Gita For Millennials
“We read not to escape life but to learn how to live it more deeply and richly, to experience the world through the eyes of the other. —Ashlyn Greer, The Care & Feeding of Old Books”
― The Echo of Old Books
― The Echo of Old Books
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