“ God has permitted the great lie for a short time only. That time is now coming to an end. Believers in the lie! You have been raised on the milk of your concrete beliefs. Now it is time for you to be… Compton Gage
“ By studying, understanding and do the wills of the book, you renounce your mortal life. Compton Gage
“ You are judged many times more by what you do in groups than for what you do as individuals. If one thousand of you participate in the murder of one child, then one thousand of you are a thousand time… Compton Gage
“ I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed reading accident. I hit a book mark and flew across the room. Steven Wright
“ The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,And all the sweet serenity of books Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“ When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me. Anais Nin
“ The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen and the sun burnt Time,… Ray Bradbury
“ So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions. Anais Nin
“ No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected, what is promised, what is allowed. One may be overcome by horror--at the cluster or… Alberto Manguel
“ I was sixteen and my mother was about to throw me out of the house forever, for breaking a very big rule, even bigger than the forbidden books. The rule was not just No Sex, but definitely No Sex With… Jeanette Winterson
“ Holding a precious book meant to Mendel what an assignment with a woman might to another man. These moments were his platonic nights of love. Books had power over him; money never did. Great collector… Stefan Zweig
“ George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine. Anne Fadiman
“ A written word is the choicest of relics. It is something at once more intimate with us and more universal than any other work of art. It is the work of art nearest to life itself. It may be translate… Henry David Thoreau
“ Does it afflict you to find your books wearing out? I mean literally .. . the mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me but that of books most of all. William Dean Howells
“ Books are the most mannerly of companions accessible at all times in all moods frankly declaring the author's mind without offense. Amos Bronson Alcott
