unknown quote (if someone knows its origins, please let me know)

Like clockwork each December old dear Nostalgia comes for a visit.  Sometimes we listen to old cassette’s or LP’s (yes i still have those) or sometimes we page through old diaries and sketchbooks.

During one of those ‘sessions’ yesterday, I stumbled upon this photocopied page from a book pasted in my 2006 diary.  I wish I wrote down from which book this quote comes from.

 If someone knows please let me know, because i’m keen to read it again.  This quote hasn’t lost it’s charm for me after all these years.