NB - Día del Libro - "Quotations"

"Better to be king of your silence that slave of your words" (William Shakespeare)
"Tell me and I forget, show me and I remember, involve me and I learn" (Benjamin Franklin)
Manuel

"Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months" (Oscar Wilde) "Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative" (Oscar Wilde)
Nuria

"To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and given them an idea of something better. A better state of one's feelings or simply the idea of a silence in one's self that allows one to think or to feel. Which to me is the same" (SUSAN SONTAG)
Ana Hildalgo

"Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow" (Oscar Wilde)
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony" (Gandhi)
"You must be the change you want to see in the world" (Gandhi)
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all" (Hypatia of Alexandria)
"All art is an imitation of nature" (Séneca)
"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman" (Virginia Woolf)
"Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends" (Woody Allen)
Trini

And and extract from MATILDA
"By the age of one and a half, she could speak perfectly and knew as many words as most grown-up people. By the time she was three, Matilda could read newspapers. At the age of four, she could read fast and well. `Daddy' she said, `could you buy me a book?' `A book?' he said. `What's wrong with the TV? We've got a nice TV and now you come asking for a book! We're too good to you already, my girl! Nearly every afternoon, Matilda stayed in the house while her brother (who was five years older than her) went to school, her father went to work and her mother went to the cinema. One afternoon, Matilda walked to the library in the village. Mrs Phelps, the woman at the library, was surprised to see this small girl. `Where are the children's books, please?' asked Matilda. Mrs Phelps showed her. `Shall I find you a nice one with lots of pictures in it?' she said. `I'm sure I can find something,' said Matilda.

After that, she walked down to the library every afternoon and sat quietly in a corner reading. `What can I read next?' she asked Mrs Phelps one day. `I've finished all the children's books'. `You mean you've looked at the pictures.' `Yes, but I've read the books, too,' said Matilda. Mrs Phelps was very surprised. `How old are you, Matilda?' she asked. `Four years and three months,' answered Matilda. Mrs Phelps was even more surprised, but she was too sensible to show it. `What sort of book would you like to read next?' she asked. `A really good one,' said Matilda. `A famous one.' So Mrs Phelps gave her Great Expectations by `Charles Dickens, a very famous English writer. For the next few afternoons she watched Matilda in the corner with the book on her knees. Photo: Every afternoon Matilda read. The books took her to Africa with Ernest Hemingway, to India with Rudyard Kipling, and to many other wonderful places. During the next six month, Matilda read fourteen `famous books' by different writers, and Mrs Phelps watched with surprise and excitement. `You can borrow books from libraries and take them home, Matilda, 'she said one day. 'Did you know?' `Can I?' said Matilda. And after that, she visited the library once every week to borrow new books and to return the old ones. And every afternoon she read. The books took her to Africa with Ernest Hemingway(A famous American writer), to India with Rudyard Kipling(A famous English writer), and to many other wonderful places…" (Roalh Dahl)
Ángeles