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Booked Quotes (page 98)

Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way Stanislaw Lem
Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart." [on Lord of the Rings] C. S. Lewis
A good social system is not to be secured by making people unselfish, but, by making their own vital impulses fit in with other peoples. This is feasible. Those who have produced stoic philosophies have all had enough to eat and drink. I feel I shall find the truth on my deathbed and be surrounded by people too stupid to understand—fussing about medicines instead of searching for wisdom. I hate being all tidy like a book in a library where nobody reads – prison is horribly like that. Bertrand Russell
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind. Mary Wortley
Mignon McLaughlin quote: "A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one..."
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. Mignon McLaughlin
As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking, as though the critic were holding the work - and it's author - in bondage. Dean Koontz
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. Ambrose Bierce
I stopped in St. Bernadette's Cemetery one of my favorite places... The trunks of six giant oaks rise like columns supporting a ceiling formed by their interlocking crowns. In the quiet space below, is laid out an aisle similar to those in any library. The gravestones are like rows of books bearing the names of those whose names have been blotted from the pages of life; who have been forgotten elsewhere but are remembered here. Dean Koontz
The more profoundly we study this wonderful book [the Bible], and the more closely we observe its divine precept, the better citizens we will become and the higher will be our destiny as a nation. William McKinley
Gilbert K. Chesterton quote: "I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and..."
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. Gilbert K. Chesterton
She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at home--Jane Austen, Dickens, Conrad, all in the library downstairs, in complete sets. How had that pursuit, reading the novels that others took as their leisure, let her think she was superior to anyone else? Ian Mcewan
A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word. Jorge Luis Borges
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Evan Esar quote: "Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by..."
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. Evan Esar
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Harper Lee

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