Geoffrey Braithwaite, the narrator of Julian Barnes’s Flaubert’s Parrot:
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surprised people prefer books.
April 29, 2008
April 29, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Books vs Life:
Books are good and great to know many things – rules, morals, how to do, happened stories and so on. But painfully I have to tell,
April 29, 2008 at 4:00 pm
“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.”
Proverbs 3:13
April 29, 2008 at 5:09 pm
Jonathan: Amen!
Sulochanosho: There are good books and bad books, we can learn a lot from the good ones:) Of course, we can learn even more from life!