Vince Watchorn

Vince Watchorn is head of Providence Country Day School (RI) and a former submarine sandwich maker. An occasional contributor to Delaware History Journal, he generally takes an Italian sub or a cheesesteak with fried onions.

Titles

A Meal in One: Wilmington and the Submarine Sandwich

Quote of the day

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
George Gissing

A book is a part of life, a manifestation of life, just as much as a tree or a horse or a star. It obeys its own rhythms, its own laws, whether it be a novel, a play, or a diary. The deep, hidden rhythm of life is always there-that of the pulse, the heart beat.
Henry Miller

There is no frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing poetry.
Emily Dickinson

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky

All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.
Ernest Hemingway

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.
Umberto Eco

For books are more than books, they are the life The very heart and core of ages past, The reason why men lived and worked and died, The essence and quintessence of their lives.
Amy Lowell

Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
James Russell Lowell

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Vince Watchorn

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