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„To study the phenomenon of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.“
„This is not a book. This is libel, slander, defamation of character. This is not a book, in the ordinary sense of the word. No, this is a prolonged insult, a gob of spit in the face of Art, a kick in the pants to God, Man, Destiny, Time, Love, Beauty … what you will.“
„My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into the system as flesh and blood which in turn creates new spirit and reshapes the world.“
„There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books.“
„A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.“
„A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.“
„All I ask of life, he says, is a bunch of books, a bunch of dreams, and a bunch of cunt.“
„What I intended to do was to burn a half dozen of my books and keep warm, so that I could write my story, but when I looked around for titles to burn, I couldn’t find any.“
„Each book can make a life or a fragment of it more beautiful.“
„We can no longer expect the one big book, the single achievement, to be an author’s claim to posterity’s regard. We shall be more inclined to assess the stature of a novelist by his ability to create what the French call an oeuvre, to present fragments of an individual vision in book after book, to build, if not a War and Peace or Ulysses, at least a shelf.“
„[Graham Greene’s] ability to encapsulate the essence of an exotic setting in a single book is exemplified in The Heart of the Matter (1948); his contemporary Evelyn Waugh stated that the West Africa of that book replaced the true remembered West Africa of his own experience.“
„Williams’s starting point is the immense pessimism of nineteenth-century men of letters…. One can explain this pessimism to some extent in terms of various social and political failures, especially in France…. But Dr Williams would rather look at the physically examinable, and he finds in the author’s disease the roots of what his book cover calls, with an admirable eye on the market, the horror of life….“
„We believe in Allah, we take the Koran as a sacred book. In our land we broke the power of infidel Rum, in his own land we struck down her Sultan whom men called the Pope, in Malta we slew the Knights, sworn enemies of Islam. Inform your people that we are sent by Allah to geld the evil Turk and raise high the people of the Nile.“
„A man can write one book that can be great, but this doesn’t make him a great writer-just the writer of a great book. . . I think a writer has to extend very widely, as well as plunge very deep, to be a great novelist. “
„Well before James Joyce, Conrad was forging a vocabulary for the contemporary soul. This book grants us another opportunity to brood over a notable literary martyrdom.“
„The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.“
„We do not consider our principles as dogmas contained in books that are said to come from heaven. We derive our inspiration, not from heaven, or from an unseen world, but directly from life.“
„According to interviews Goyette gave to Leamer for his book “Fantastic: The Life of Arnold Schwarzenegger,” the two had a brief fling in 1975 when she was a teenager.“
„I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.“
„People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.“
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