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.
"You know, you don’t really need me. All you need to do is read your own books."
The Ni To Ichi Way of strategy is recorded in this the Book of the Void.
It seemed to me that I had no right to burn a book I hadn't even read.
You don't know what I'm all about
Like killing cops and reading Kerouac
I do not believe in infallible men, nor in an infallible church, nor in an infallible book
Quantum fiction is literature that embodies the new physical or quantum universe.
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book. -Lemony Snicket