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The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1) QUOTES

The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1) QUOTES

1 " A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him. "

― Walter Mosley , The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)

2 " A peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. "

― Walter Mosley , The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)

3 " A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more than once. "A businessman has business books and a dream has novels and books of poetry. Most women like reading about love, and a true revolutionary will have books about the minutiae of overthrowing the oppressor. A person with no books is inconsequential in a modern setting, but a peasant that reads is a prince in waiting. "

― Walter Mosley , The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)

4 " Librarians are wonderful people, partly because they are, on the whole, unaware of how dangerous knowledge is. Karl Marx upended the political landscape of the twentieth century sitting at a library table. Still, modern librarians are more afraid of ingnorance than they are of the potential devastation that knowledge can bring. (p. 192) "

― Walter Mosley , The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)

5 " Let me speak to your boss" I said. Six magic words that roil deep in the bowels of anymore collecting a paycheck on a biweekly basis. It's like winking at a leprechaun: he has to give up his pot of gold, and yet no one knows why. "

― Walter Mosley , The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)

6 " It's a disheartening feeling when you can't stand the touch of someone but neither can you push them away. "

― Walter Mosley , The Long Fall (Leonid McGill, #1)