Home is where the books are
“Once you’ve packed and unpacked as many books [as I have in my move to New York in 1999], then that’s where you live!”
-Salman Rushdie, 2008 (via Space & Culture)
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Books, Babies
“Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.”
-Walter Benjamin, #10 of ‘The Critics Technique in Thirteen Theses’, 1926. (in “One Way Street”. Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings Volume 1 1913-1926. Cambridge MA: Harvard. 1996. Pg 460.)
