books

Che_ Guevara with about two thousand guerrilla fighters entered Havana on January 2, 1959. Their entry was relatively quiet as they headed for the Malecon and the old Spanish fortress, overlooking the entrance of Havana harbor. At 3:00 a.m. early the following morning, they took over the imposing La Cabaña fortress. In anticipation of Guevara__ arrival the three thousand regular army soldiers, assigned to the fort, stood in formation as their officers greeted Guevara. Addressing the troops, __he_ light-heartedly told them that they could teach his men how to march, but that his rebels could teach them how to fight.When they were dismissed, he had them turn in their rifles but allowed the officers to retain their pistols. He granted them all a month__ furlough; however, upon their return they discovered that they had all been relieved of duty and permanently discharged.

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

Failures Are The Cornerstones Of Success!

Serious affairs and history are carefully laid snares for the uninformed.

For a game, you don__ need a teacher.

Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many read anthologies of excerpted works, that selected the brightest passages but left out deeper contexts__ighteenth-century Reader__ Digest were quite popular. More cautioned against a habit she viewed as cultivating a taste only for __elicious morsels,_ one that spits out __very thing which is plain._ Good books, in contrast, require good readers: __n all well-written books, there is much that is good which is not dazzling; and these shallow critics should be taught, that it is for the embellishment of the more tame and uninteresting parts of his work, that the judicious poet commonly reserves those flowers, whose beauty is defaced when they are plucked from the garland into which he had so skillfully woven them.

The nobles had made reading unpopular, as it showed that one couldn__ afford to buy spells or magical devices, since one had to get knowledge to do things the ordinary way; even if this view held little logic, the king himself was known to insult readers as __ookfaces_ or __nable to think for themselves, so they need to spout what others have said,_ and these opinions became popular, as did most views expressed by the king or his son.

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people.

Well there's these things called books.... They are like TV for smart people

It__ not easy to write a poem about a poem.

Books and spiritual blessings are the greatest soul food

When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.

If you are brave, you will open the book and read it.

Cats and books are my universe. Both are infinitely fascinating and full of mystery.

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.

I loved books, even as I loved the similar way opium had of transporting a mind elsewhere

There are few finer or more innocent pleasures than talking books to one who knows. There may be joy in heaven- I am told there is- but the evidence is not conclusive, and I'll take mine here in my library.