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Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
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.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.
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.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
Writers are the main landmarks of the past.
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.