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Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of read more
Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why --but the editorialists forget it --terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order read more
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking -- and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers.
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on read more
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
I divide all readers into two classes: those who read to remember and those who read to forget.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather read more
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
Books are men of higher stature; the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
