“Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Books
Ronald Reagan on Politics
“Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.” Continue reading
Groucho Marx on Books
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.” Continue reading
Philip G. Hamerton on Quotations
“Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?” Continue reading
Thomas Carlyle on Education
“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” Continue reading
Paul Valery on Books
“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.” Continue reading
Samuel Johnson on Literature
“What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.” Continue reading
Samuel Goldwyn on Writing
“I don’t think anyone should write their autobiography until after they’re dead.” Continue reading
Groucho Marx on TV and Books
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.” Continue reading
Japanese Proverb about Reading
“If you believe everything you read, better not read.” Continue reading
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