Gabriel Zaid Quotes

• The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Book, Desire, Losing

  Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books

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• As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to preach in the desert.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Writing, Opportunity, Self

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• Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities

  Gabriel Zaid

  Wealth, Possibility, Accumulation

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• What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Reading, Book, Mean

  Gabriel Zaid, Natasha Wimmer (2003). “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books Incorporated

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• Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not because the books are expensive, but because our time is scarce.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Book, Luxury, Choices

  Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books

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• Quienes aspiran a la condición de individuos cultos visitan las librerías con inquietud, abrumados por la inmensidad de todo lo que no han leído. Compran algo que les han dicho que es bueno, intentan leerlo sin éxito y, cuando han acumulado media docena de libros sin leer, se sienten tan mal que temen comprar más. En cambio, los verdaderamente cultos son capaces de poseer miles de libros sin leer sin perder la compostura ni las ganas de más.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Book, Desire, Half

  Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books

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• The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookseller, and the size of the business.

  Gabriel Zaid

  Book, Focus, Shrewdness

  Gabriel Zaid “So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance”, Paul Dry Books

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