books

"From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend on reading it."

"The complete, searchable text of the Villey-Saulnier edition from the ARFTL project at the University of Chicago"

"In science, read, by preference, the newest works; in literature, the oldest. The classic literature is always modern."

"... the second time I ever saw you I learned what I had read in books but I had never actually believed: that love and suffering are the same thing and that the sum of love is what you have to pay for…"

"Each jazz musician is supposed to be a composer. Whether he is or not, I don't know. I don't listen to that many people. If I did, I probably wouldn't play half as much to satisfy myself. As a youth I…"

"677. Dry bread at home is better than rost meate abroad."

"America, the great liberator, is in desperate need of being liberated from itself -- from its own excesses and arrogance. And the world needs to be liberated from American values and culture, spreadin…"

"Some years ago when I was in Monterey, my friend, David Spence, showed me a book entitled “History of California,” written by an author of recognized merit by the name of Franklin Tuthill, and called …"

"Considering how readily musicologists criticize one another – witness the merciless footnotes of so many books and articles – the innocent bystander must find it strange that they remain unwilling to …"

"All my life I had hated machines.  I could remember how bitterly at school I had resented reading the news that someone had flown across the Atlantic or travelled through the Sahara in a car. I had re…"

"The issue of economics is not something I’ve understood as well as I should. I’ve got Greenspan’s book.... I've never been involved in Wall Street, I've never been involved in the financial stuff, the…"

"Boys are scolded even for their violent fantasies- for the violent stories they want to hear, the violent books they want to read, the violent games they want to play. Male "demonism" is punished, pat…"

"A real book reads us."

"Professor Lal was already a veteran whose major book, History of the Khaljis, was compulsory reading for students of medieval Indian history from the undergraduate class onwards. I still find it very …"

"Annotated Bibliography for Robert F. Kennedy from the Alsos Digital Library for Nuclear Issues"

"I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you're not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired. I have this on rather good authority from someone who once read it…"

"You might with advantage take out your map of modern literature and mark on it the name of Italo Svevo…for Svevo and his novel, Confessions of Zeno…will henceforth be on other people's maps, and it is…"

"Thoughts that cannot survive the open air and that evaporate as soon as we take them out of the room. To put them to the test of isolation. Take them out of the book where you found them, they do not …"

"I'm staying tonight, or this week, in the Hotel 1000, and I would like to talk for just a second about their toilets. They've got the best toilets ever, man. They're amazing, you won't believe this if…"

"Wilber's AQAL Map and Beyond - online book by Rolf Sattler. Proposes a dynamic mandala that transcends the AQAL map but includes it as a special case."