“It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude”
Voltaire
“Going through my play book, I'm looking for the plays that can get me in the end zone, so I'm really trying hard. Actually my eyes haven't been working that good.”
Clinton Portis
“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”
Oscar Wilde
“It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what other men say in whole books what other men do not say in whole books”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Formerly we used to canonize our heroes. The modern method is to vulgarize them. Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable.”
“Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?”
Albert Einstein
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