Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Anthony Powell on Books

"He spoke without a vestige of interest. I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already."
--Anthony Powell, The Valley of Bones, pp. 233-234.

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