I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room.
Steven WrightBe careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.
Markus HerzTags: humor books misattributed-mark-twain health misprints
And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Oscar WildeTags: reading books morality writing
People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic.
Diane SetterfieldTags: books
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Austin PhelpsTags: books priorities
Never trust a man who reads only one book.
Arturo Pérez-ReverteTags: books
A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.
Franz KafkaTags: books
When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes.
ErasmusTags: books
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.
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