“A library is a good place
to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragement
and comfort. A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or
undecided, for there, in a book, you may have your question answered. Books are
good company, in sad times and happy times, for books are people - people who
have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book." ~E.B.
White
“The heights by great men
reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight but, they while their
companions slept, they were toiling upwards in the night.”
“Thirty years ago my older
brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written
on birds that he'd had three months to write, which was due the next day. We
were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close
to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books about
birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down
beside him put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, "Bird by
bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.”
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
― Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
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