J. Patrick Lewis Quotes

J. Patrick Lewis is an American poet and prose writer noted for his children's poems and other light verse. He worked as professor of economics from 1974-1998, after which he devoted himself full-time to writing. Wikipedia

✵ 5. May 1942

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J. Patrick Lewis Quotes

“A great book is a homing device
For navigating paradise.

A good book somehow makes you care
About the comfort of a chair.

A bad book owes to many trees
A forest of apologies.”

J. Patrick Lewis

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