books

"Flaubert read too many books, and in consequence some of his own books stagger under the weight of his erudition. He said he'd read some preposterous number of books to prepare for the writing of Sala…"

"San Narciso Pynchon Page"

"There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulat…"

"One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers : if there were some poet — Frost, Stevens, Eliot — whom people still read in canoes!"

"Well, I was missing my earplugs. And the way that I found out why they're missing is because the little Elmo -- his five pounds -- came in to the bedroom and deposited something on -- he came in from …"

"They say that the Olympics is going to rekindle English national pride. I mean, for £9.2 billion they could have written “Fuck off Germany” onto the moon."

"I associated it by assonance with 'hurler' , hululer , loup, , 'Riquet à la Houppe' and the title of Maupassant's book ‘Le Horla’, inspired by mental distraction."

"The image of the whole of Bharatavarsha being a chakravartikshetra is as old as the oldest Vedic literature. The Itihasa-Purana provide glorious accounts of many chakravartins-Ikshvaku, Puru, Prithu V…"

"Jewish Virtual Library"

"You cry out against Jewish capital, gentlemen? Whoever condemns Jewish capital, gentlemen, is already engaged in the class struggle, even though he does not realize it. You are against Jewish capital …"

"But it's a prize that... if you're into science-fiction and fantasy you grow up reading books with "Hugo " on the cover. And this is very, very moving, to be in that position oneself. It's an odd situ…"

"That fabulous polymath Samuel Johnson maintained that no man in his right mind ever read a book through from beginning to end."

"The world of shelf space is a zero-sum game: One product displaces another."

"Only from bad books."

"I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble."

"Our chapter on East Timor was far and away the most important in the two volumes, precisely because the huge ongoing crimes could have so readily been ended. It passed without mention in the doctrinal…"

"Some H. C. Bunner stories, including 'What Mrs. Fortescue Did' and 'Zenobia's Infidelity' are read in Mister Ron's Basement Podcast"

"Alas for poor Jadunath Sarkar, who must have turned in his grave if he were buried. For, after reading his History of Aurangzib, one would be tempted to ask, if the temple-breaking policy of Aurangzeb…"

"Poetry is the greatest literature, and pleasure in poetry is the greatest of literary pleasures. It is also the least easy to attain and there are some people who never do attain it."

"One of Xavier's colleagues in this mission of christianising the Hindus was Miguel Vaz, the Vicar General of India appointed by Rome. In consultation with Xavier he wrote a long letter to the King of …"