Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.... You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. Y...ou bring your history and you read it in your own terms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No man could bring himself to reveal his true character, and, above all, his true limitations as a citizen and a Christian, his tr...ue meannesses, his true imbecilities, to his friends, or even to his wife. Honest autobiography is therefore a contradiction in terms: the moment a man considers himself, even in petto, he tries to gild and fresco himself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know t...heir sufferings, and I have come down to deliver them from the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the country of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »