The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar WildeWhat I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for.
Isaac AsimovTags: books
It takes a certain ingenuous faith - but I have it - to believe that people who read and reflect more likely than not come to judge things with liberality and truth.
A.C. GraylingTags: truth books reflection
A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Garrison KeillorTags: books
It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part.
VoltaireTags: books
Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan SwiftTags: books
All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.
John RuskinTags: books classics popularity
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
Jane AustenTags: humor books classic aliteracy
You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, who had ever been alive.
James BaldwinTags: reading books pain empathy
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
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