Chamodi Waidyathilaka
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while Dad Cameron lectured Ken severely and Scott and Marjory
“Listen. The trees in this story are stirring, trembling, readjusting themselves. A breeze is coming in gusts off the sea, and it is almost as if the trees know, in their restlessness, in their head-tossing impatience, that something is about to happen.”
― The Hand That First Held Mine
― The Hand That First Held Mine
“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book."
(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
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(Acceptance speech, National Book Award 2010 (Nonfiction), November 17, 2010)”
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“June is the month when the meadows are full of
flowers and blossoming grasses. Hedge-parsley and
chervil are both ni flower, together with many others
of their kind that bear sprayes in the shape of upside-
down umbrellas. They are sweet-scented in both leaf and blossom.”
― What To Look For In Summer
flowers and blossoming grasses. Hedge-parsley and
chervil are both ni flower, together with many others
of their kind that bear sprayes in the shape of upside-
down umbrellas. They are sweet-scented in both leaf and blossom.”
― What To Look For In Summer
“When I worked in a second-hand bookshop — so easily pictured, if you don't work in one, as a kind of paradise where charming old gentlemen browse eternally among calf-bound folios — the thing that chiefly struck me was the rarity of really bookish people. Our shop had an exceptionally interesting stock, yet I doubt whether ten per cent of our customers knew a good book from a bad one. First edition snobs were much commoner than lovers of literature, but oriental students haggling over cheap textbooks were commoner still, and vague-minded women looking for birthday presents for their nephews were commonest of all.”
― Books v. Cigarettes
― Books v. Cigarettes
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