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Books are not
made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so
beautifully furnishes a house.
-- Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher,
Orator, Writer
Where is human
nature so weak as in the bookstore?
-- Henry Ward Beecher
1813-1887, American Preacher,
Orator, Writer
When I am
dead, I hope it may be said: ''His sins were scarlet, but
his books were read.''
-- Hilaire Belloc
1870-1953, British Author
Books are not
men and yet they stay alive.
-- Stephen Vincent Benet
1989-1943, American Novelist,
Poet
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Of all the
ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as
the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who
write books not because they are poor, but because they are
dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not
like.
-- Walter Benjamin
1982-1940, German Critic,
Philosopher
The power of a
text is different when it is read from when it is copied
out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who
is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers
the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the
text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever
closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement
of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the
copier submits it to command.
-- Walter Benjamin
1982-1940, German Critic,
Philosopher
Does there, I
wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately
all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have
read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a
being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.
-- Arnold Bennett
1867-1931, British Novelist
All the best
stories in the world are but one story in reality -- the
story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all
and at all times, how to escape.
-- Arthur Christopher Benson
1862-1925, British Author,
Poet
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