“What is the use of a book”, thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”
Books Quotes
Sink the Bible to the bottom of the ocean, and man’s obligations to God would be unchanged. He would have the same path to tread, only his lamp and his guide would be gone; he would have the same voyage to make, only his compass and chart would be overboard.
The Author to her Book: Thou ill-form’d offspring of my feeble brain, Who after birth did’st by my side remain, Till snatcht from thence by friends, less wise than true, Who thee abroad expos’d to public view, Made thee in rags, halting to th’ press to trudge, Where errors were not lessened (all may judge). […]
Don Juan looked at me for a moment and did not seem at all surprised to see me, even though it had been more than two years since I last visited him. He put his hand on my shoulder and smiled gently and said that I looked different, that I was getting fat and soft. […]
When I want to understand someone swiftly, I need only look at their bookshelf.
With all the books we have, so many still waiting to be written! Like fresh deep plums way up in the treetops. Not much fun to climb up some teetery ladder, snake through the branches going way out on limbs to pick ’em, but how delicious they are when the work is over.
Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.
It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren’t. I’m not surpirsed some people prefer books. Books make sense of life. The only problem is that the lives they make sense of are other people’s lives, never your own.
