Black Shack Alley Quotes

“Nor did I share the anxiety with which each one measured up his chances of success.
The subjects taught at the lycee did not inspire me in the least. I worked for working's sake. I endured them.”
― Joseph Zobel, Black Shack Alley

“I was so enthused with literature -- not stuck on literature, but in love with letters -- that I was easily inclined to bring all the conversations round to works I had read or fictitious characters from my readings about whom I loved to talk”
― Joseph Zobel, Black Shack Alley