Eric

“So please, oh please, we beg, we pray,
Go throw your TV set away,
And in its place you can install
A lovely bookshelf on the wall.
Then fill the shelves with lots of books.”
― Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

“A nation is bound not only by the real past, but the stories it tells itself: by what it remembers, and what it forgets.”
― Colin Thubron

“You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.”
― Annie Proulx

“Resist much, obey little.”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass