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.
I was part of all the newspaper, English, literature, and theater clubs.
All of the books I mentioned above are available as print and/or eBooks. The links are on my website
My father insisted that I read history books in my spare time, and that shaped my life in many ways.
It took us a year and a couple of months to get the whole book done.
I simply wanted to find a people I had learned to love through a book.
This book deals with man solely as a phenomenon; but... with the whole pheneomenon...
BERISH: I distrust miracles. They exist only in books, and books say anything.