„How was it possible for the world to be so beautiful and so cruel at the same time?“
— Gillian Rubinstein, Across the Nightingale Floor
— Gillian Rubinstein, Across the Nightingale Floor
— 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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— William Powell (author) author of The Anarchist Cookbook 1949
Introductory words by P. M. Bergman.
— 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)
— Kapil Dev Indian cricketer 1959
— Terry Pratchett, Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
— Robert Charles Wilson author 1953
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— 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.
— André Maurois French writer 1885 - 1967
— Edward Abbey American author and essayist 1927 - 1989