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  • Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Victor Hugo Quotes , Book Quotes , Letters Quotes
  • Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives, Live regist'red upon our brazen tombs And then grace us in the disgrace of death; When, spite of cormorant devouring Time, Th' endeavor of this present breath may buy That honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge And make us heirs of all eternity.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : William Shakespeare Quotes , Book Quotes , Grace Quotes
  • I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Book Quotes , Trying Quotes
  • Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Thoughtful Quotes