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A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. -- Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer
- All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac. -- Saul Bellow
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Beware of the man of one book. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
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Camerado, this is no book. Who touches this, touches a man. ~ Whitman
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Byron says that “a small drop of ink may make millions think.” Many a time a book has decided the character of a man’s life. A book makes friends for you; for there springs up from its reading an acquaintanceship not only between you and the author, but between you and another man who reads the same book. Samuel Johnson, hearing that a man had read Burton’s “Anatomy of Melancholy,” exclaimed, “If I knew that man I could hug him.” It is said that Cæsar, when shipwrecked and in danger of drowning, did not try to save his gold, but took his Commentaries between his teeth and swam to shore. -- John Wilson, from a paper read before the Club of Odd Volumes, in Boston.
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Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye. ~ John Milton John Milton Information at Luminarium.org
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You do not publish your own verses, Laelius; you criticize mine. Pray cease to criticize mine, or else publish your own. ~ Martial, Roman author
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The classics are only primitive literature. They belong to the same class as primitive machinery and primitive music and primitive medicine. ~ Stephen Leacock, Homer and Humbug
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Books are not made like children but like pyramids ... and they are just as useless! and they stay in the desert! ... Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them. ~ Gustave Flaubert
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All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hour, and the books of all time. ~ John Ruskin
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A book that furnishes no quotations is, me judice, no book -- it is a plaything. ~ Thomas Love Peacock
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