This is a book and a body that is so warm to the touch. My touch.
Books Quotes
Samuel Johnson is on this page more than once for good reason. In The Rambler (1750) he wrote that no place gives a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Boswell (1791) has him saying that a man ought to read just as inclination leads him, because what he reads as a task will do him little good. Alberto Manguel, Emerson and Northrop Frye are among the most-quoted writers here, which is what you would expect from people who spent their working lives reading.
Two entries are flagged as misattributed. The quip about a manuscript that is both good and original, with the good parts not original and the original parts not good, is credited to Johnson. “Rommel, you magnificent bastard! I read your book!” is credited to General Patton.
The Kindle is just the razor. The books are the blades — ka-ching!
This isn't a diet book. In fact, you may gain 30 pounds just reading it.
This book is dedicated to the men and women we have lost in the Twenty Years War.
I wrote a book ...Kluge which is about all the times it fails.
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.