Humphreydunn

“I suppose if you’ve always been wrapped in wool, you don’t know it’s wool.”
― Frank Delaney, Venetia Kelly's Traveling Show: A Novel of Ireland

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
― Anne Tyler

“She had that greatest of all things, wisdom, and that was a very important thing to possess in a world that seemed to be losing the respect it had always had for wise people. Wise people had been replaced in the public estimation by that curious category of people—celebrities—who were, for the most part, shallow people not known for their wisdom. Where were the Nelson Mandelas of this world of celebrity? Where were the Gandhis”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Joy and Light Bus Company