This book fills a much-needed gap. (in a review)
Books Quotes
There is no friend as loyal as a book.
If a book is true to what men and women know of one another’s souls it will be true enough, and it will be great and beautiful.
He might be a very clever man by nature for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move.
You write a book like that that you’re fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it’s like pissing in your father’s beer.
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.
Whenever you read a good book, it’s like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, which is why I don’t like to read good books.
It’s enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it’s good enough, […]
It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst. What is the right use? What is the one end which all means go to effect? They are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, […]
