a thought … no more, no less

‘When I read a book, I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes a part of me.’

- Somerset Maugham (born 1874, died 1965), who wrote Of Human Bondage in 1915

~ by surfhoney on Tuesday, 7 November 2006.