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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how read more
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine read more
Oh that one would hear me! behold, my desire is, that the
Almighty would answer me, and that mine adversary had written a
book.
Books are a finer world within the world.
Books are a finer world within the world.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words read more
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.
