Sheridan Hay Quotes & Sayings

#1. I read Borges, Jorge Luis Borges. He think he too good for me, but I love him ... he was a blind man who see better than anyone

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#2. The Arcade, and now Peabody's, combined to tell me that there was life in objects, in books. It was all about having eyes to see the true meaning of things. As Pike proved daily, books held a kind of magic, an apparent as well as a hidden value.

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#3. He wanted to limit me to his own investigation of who I was ...

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#4. Drunk on research, exhilarated by arcane details

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#5. The books housed in one's first adult bookshelf are the geological bed of who we wish to become

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#6. I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made room.

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#7. Bruno was a musician with the temperament of an anarchist and the breath of a bartender's dishrag. He gave the lie to bookselling as a genteel occupation.

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#8. ...to be free is often to be lonely

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#9. Liberation was in the very scale of the city: a goldfish bowl one could never grow to fit.

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#10. I knew books to be objects that loved to cluster and form disordered piles, but here books seemed robbed of their zany capacity to fall about, to conspire. In the library, books behaved themselves.

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#11. Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

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#12. They were oddities, marginal and not exactly respectable. For her part, Chaps was too well read to be considered entirely proper. Books had made her unreasonably independent.

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#13. Art opens the fishiest eye . . .

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#14. It was ugly, but then ugly objects as a general rule are the bravest.

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#15. I didn't know then that this was how deep emotion most often comes, from opposite directions and at once, when you are least aware and farthest from yourself.

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