Books Abide as Life-Long Companions

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Books Abide as Life-Long Companions

• Andre Maurois (July 26, 1885 October 9, 1967)
• a French author and man of letters

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Book

• That is a book which is opened with expectation,
  and closed with delight and profit.
                         Amos Bronson Alcott
• Some books are to be tasted others swallowed
  and some few to be chewed and digested.
  Francis Bacon

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• The man who does not read good books has no
  advantage over the man who cant read them.
  Mark Twain
• Books are the quietest and most constant of
  friends they are the most accessible and wisest
  of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
• Charles W. Eliot

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• All good books are alike in that they are truer
  than if they had really happened and after you
  are finished reading one you will feel that all
  that happened to you and afterwards it all
  belongs to you the good and the bad, the
  ecstacy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and
  the places and how the weather was.
  Hemingway
• Books are good enough in their own way, but they
  are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.
  Robert Louis Stevenson

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Andre Mauroiss Quotes

• A successful marriage is an edifice that must be
  rebuilt every day
• Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who
  forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at
  that very moment
• Writing is a difficult trade which must be
  learned slowly by reading great authors by
  trying at the outset to imitate them by daring
  then to be original by destroying one's first
  productions.

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• If, in New York, you arrive late for an
  appointment, say, "I took a taxi
• The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too
  lengthy meditation on the past.
• Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles,
  the feeling that it is too late and the game
  finished, that the stage belongs to the rising
  generations. The true evil is not the weakening
  of the body, but the indifference of the soul

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Vocabulary Check up

• 1. the sharing of thoughts, beliefs or feelings
• -He sought meaningful ( ) with
  another human being.
• 2. admit (a disagreeable fact, etc) reluctantly
  to declare (ones sins) to a priest or directly
  to God, in order to gain absolution
• - Debate is increasing after a self-declared
  gay serviceman held a news conference to announce
  his refusal to continue compulsory military
  service, and ( ) the mental stress caused
  by concealing his sexuality.
• -A man with a long criminal record (
  ) to the murder.

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• very different
• - In a nutshell, the former Seoul mayor and
  President Roh Moo-hyun are ( ) in
  economic philosophy in many areas. 
• to involve someone or something in difficulties.
• -Some vignettes are linked together by a darker
  story that grows in importance throughout the
  novelTom's life-threatening entanglement with
  the murderer Injun Joe. 

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• quarrel, argue or debate noisily or
  bitterly.-The delegations, who reopened the
  six-party talks last Tuesday after a 13-month
  hiatus with an ambitious goal to make substantial
  progress in the nuclear standoff, continued to (
  ) over the core issue North Koreas nuclear
  ambitions and the motive.

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Summary

• Nothing can take the place of reading.
• Books can take us out of ourselves.
• Books are our gateways into other minds and other
  peoples.
• Books provide us some vicarious experience.

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• A book never leaves the reader the same as he was
  before.
• Books give authentic guideline in history,
  political economy, and all branches of science
  and technology.
• Books bring about social equality.
• It is reading that has the most profound and
  lasting effect on human mind and provides a
  variety of emotional and intellectual experiences.

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