Books

"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force." Dorothy Parker (American critic and humorist, 1893-1967)

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know *nothing about.*well.*by heart.* Jean-Jacques Rousseau (French philosopher, 1712-78)

"Books and harlots have their quarrels in public." Walter Benjamin (German philosopher and critic, 1892-1940)

I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and *read a book.*grab a beer.*say there.* Groucho Marx (American film comedian, 1890-1977)

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." Mark Twain (American writer, 1835-1910)

A room without books is like *a body without a soul.*the opposite of a library.*a body without bones.* Marcus Tullius Cicero (Roman statesman, 106-43 BC)

"I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once." C. S. Lewis (English literary scholar, 1898-1963)

"Books are like a *mirror.*joke.*prophesy.* If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out." B.C. Forbes (Scottish-American financial journalist, 1880-1954)

"I have always imagined that *Paradise*my living room*Hell* will be a kind of library." Jorge Luis Borges (Argentine short-story writer, 1899-1986)

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." Groucho Marx (American film comedian, 1890-1977)

"The book you don't read won't help." Jim Rohn (American entrepreneur, 1930-2009)

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." St Augustine of Hippo (Roman Christian theologian, AD 354-430)

"My desire is that the Almighty would answer me and mine adversary had written a book." Bible (Job 31:35)

"The *covers*ideas*characters* of this book are too far apart." Ambrose Bierce (American writer, 1842-1914)

"Neither am I." Peter Cook (English satirist and actor, 1937-95) on hearing that a fellow guest was 'writing a book'

"One man is as good as another until he has written a book." Benjamin Jowett (English classicist, 1817-93)

"No *furniture*pastime*dream world* so charming as books." Sydney Smith (English clergyman, 1771-1845)

"A thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat." Mark Twain (American writer, 1835-1910)

"Should not the Society of Indexers be known as 'Indexers, Society of, The'?" Keith Waterhouse (English writer, 1929-2009)

In every first novel, the hero is the author as *Christ or Faust.*Tarzan.*himself or herself.* Oscar Wilde (Irish dramatist and poet, 1854-1900)

"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written." Oscar Wilde (Irish dramatist and poet, 1854-1900)