There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader’s hand in the margin, are more interesting than the text. The world is one of those books.
Books Quotes
Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.
The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been around a really old-fashioned secondhand bookshop, one of those that look as though they were designed by M. Escher on a bad day and has more staircases than storeys and those rows of […]
Books… are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with ’em, then we grow out of ’em and leave ’em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly ignorant.
Our lives are books, written in our own blood on the tattered pages of time.
Which is the real possessor of a book – the man who has its original and every following edition, and shows, to many an admiring and envying visitor, now this, now that, in binding characteristic, with possessor-pride; yeah, from secret shrine is able to draw forth and display the author’s manuscript, with the very shapes […]
For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, is as good almost to kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man, […]
“Well, but look here,” he said, just to keep up his part in the foolish conversation, “what if one of the chimpanzees finally did duplicate a book, right down to the last period, but left that off? Would that count?” – “I suppose not. Probably the chimpanzee would get around to doing the book again, […]
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
