„How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?“
— Gillian Rubinstein, Across the Nightingale Floor
„How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.“
— Gore Vidal, Chapter 1, Libanius to Priscus, Antioch March 380
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„Human beings betray their worst failings when they marvel to find that a world ruler is neither foolishly indolent, presumptuous, nor cruel.“
— Marguerite Yourcenar French writer 1903 - 1987
Les êtres humains avouent leurs pires faiblesses quand ils s'étonnent qu'un maître du monde ne soit pas sottement indolent, présomptueux, ou cruel.
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„This is a brutal book – sensual, rude, coarse, and cruel. However, it is timely and well-written, even witty.“
— William Powell (author) author of The Anarchist Cookbook 1949
Introductory words by P. M. Bergman.
„But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.“
— Christopher Morley American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet 1890 - 1957
Context: Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
„Tournaments like the World Cup, they are a bit like that -- you can't start out by thinking of how you will play the final at Lord's. You look at your first opponent and you think how to defeat him, then you think of your next opponent. It doesn't matter who you think you might meet in the final, you should only think of your next match. That is the only way to win a tournament, that is what we did in 1983, we played one match at a time…“
— Kapil Dev Indian cricketer 1959
„But the purpose of the book is not the horror, it is horror's defeat.“
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
„Later Julian would give me another book he had culled from among the Archival duplicates, a short novel called The Time Machine by Mr. H. G. Wells, about a marvelous but apparently imaginary cart which carried a man into the future—and it fascinated me—but the Archive itself was a Time Machine in everything but name. Here were voices preserved on browning paper like pressed flowers, whispering apostasies into the ear of a new century.“
— Robert Charles Wilson author 1953
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„How pleasant it is to respect people! When I see books, I am not concerned with how the authors loved or played cards; I see only their marvelous works.“
— Anton Chekhov Russian dramatist, author and physician 1860 - 1904
Какое наслаждение уважать людей! Когда я вижу книги, мне нет дела до того, как авторы любили, играли в карты, я вижу только их изумительные дела.
„Two world wars have destroyed in a few years the material and spiritual capital accumulated by centuries of work. The nineteenth century had hoped to turn man, by virtue of education, into a reasoning being: a half-century of ferocity has proved that a cruel, primitive beast still resides in him.“
— André Maurois French writer 1885 - 1967
„The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.“
— Edward Abbey American author and essayist 1927 - 1989
