Vincent Starrett Quotes

#1. Man wants what he cannot have, or what is difficult to procure, or what he must wade through the blood of other men to get. So with collectors.

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#2. The day before yesterday always has been a glamour day. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.

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#3. Only those things the heart believes are true.

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#4. Superficially it may appear that I am more interested in books than in people; but I think it nearer the mark to say that I am more interested in people as they are revealed to me in books than as they reveal themselves to me in daily contact.

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#5. When we are collecting books, we are collecting happiness.

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#6. Every new search is a voyage to the Indies, a quest for buried treasure, a journey to the end of the rainbow; and whether or not at the end there shall be turned up a pot of gold or merely a delightful volume, there are always wonders along the way.

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#7. Some delightful inscriptions are found in second-hand books. One, the most famous of all, may be found in every bookshop in the nation, repeated in a thousand and one volumes with only a single change of phrase in each. It is this: ', with love from Momma.

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#8. I hold a theory that, sooner or later, if a man but live long enough, certain books destined for his peculiar delight will find him, however obscure they or he may be.

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#9. It is possible that the most misunderstood man upon earth is the collector of books ...

Vincent Starrett