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A good heavy book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
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“Reading and Nothingness, Of Proust in the Summer Sun,” New York Times (June 2, 1985)

 

Roy Blount

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The book which I shall make people read is the book of the heart, which holds the key to the mystery of life.

 

Meher Baba

 

Up anchor! Up anchor!
Set sail and away!
The ventures of dreamland
Are thine for a day.

 

Silas Weir Mitchell

 

When the captain throws out his sheet-anchor, and the ship "rides at anchor," as it is called, there is a great strain on every link of that chain; and if one bad link breaks, off goes the anchor, and the ship is driven before the winds, and may be destroyed. Now, our character is very much like the chain; one bad piece vitiates and spoils it. So we must have a pure character.

 

John (Presbyterian pastor) Hall