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If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
One of my earliest loves was the Book of Common Prayer. I was seduced by it, by its beautiful words and the sense of history.
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
Once you know about critics, you know about literature. Literature is whatever survives the critics.
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts have their root in Greece.
Sartor Resartus is simply unreadable, and for me that always sort of spoils a book.
Will Cuppy How to Get from January to December (1951)
The composition and distribution of this book is thus an act of Magick by which I cause Changes to take place in conformity with my Will.
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