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"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
- Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)
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 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 337 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0880016078
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In this extraordinary collection of twenty tales, Richard Ford, a master short story writer in his own right, has selected his personal favorites from among more than two hundred of Chekhov's tales and short novels. These stories, ordered chronologically from 1886 to 1899, are drawn from Chekhov's most fruitful years as a short story writer. The translation is by Constance Garnett, who brought Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, and Turgenev to the English-speaking world.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Ford picks his favorites
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"He felt about books as doctors feel about medicines, or managers about plays - cynical, but hopeful."
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books."
"The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."
"You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters."
"I shall curse you with book and bell and candle."
"One cannot review a bad book without showing off."
"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."
"He that loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter."
"Beware the man of one book."
"I live for books."
"Nature and Books belong to the eyes that see them."
"The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet."
"...A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."
"Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."
"An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books."
"A book of quotations . . . can never be complete."
"If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to?"
"I don't worry about getting old. I'm old already. Only young people worry about getting old. When I was 65 I had cupid's eczema. I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked."
"Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."
"Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy."
"There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29."
"Getting kicked out of the American Bar Association is like getting kicked out of the Book-of-the-Month-Club."
"'The Good Book' - one of the most remarkable euphemisms ever coined."
"Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation."
"The days just prior to marriage are like a snappy introduction to a tedious book."
"When a book and a head collide and there is a hollow sound, is it always from the book?"
"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."
"A big book is a big bore."
"In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out."
"I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin."
"In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel."
"America has begun a spiritual reawakening. Faith and hope are being restored. Americans are turning back to God. Church attendance is up. Audiences for religious books and broadcasts are growing. And I do believe that he has begun to heal our blessed land."
"In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books."
"The poor and the affluent are not communicating because they do not have the same words. When we talk of the millions who are culturally deprived, we refer not to those who do not have access to good libraries and bookstores, or to museums and centers for the performing arts, but those deprived of the words with which everything else is built, the words that opens doors. Children without words are licked before they start. The legion of the young wordless in urban and rural slums, eight to ten years old, do not know the meaning of hundreds of words which most middle-class people assume to be familiar to much younger children. Most of them have never seen their parents read a book or a magazine, or heard words used in other than rudimentary ways related to physical needs and functions. Thus is cultural fallout caused, the vicious circle of ignorance and poverty reinforced and perpetuated. Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble."
"Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness."
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."
"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."
"The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. And they are not only happy in themselves, they are the cause of happiness in others."
"The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything."
"It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books."
"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed"
"A good book is the precious life-blood of the master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose for a life beyond."
"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use."
"Read much, but not many books."
"There is no such thing as a worthless book though there are some far worse than worthless; no book that is not worth preserving, if its existence may be tolerated; as there may be some men whom it may be proper to hang, but none should be suffered to starve."
"It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in the reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours."
"Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books."
"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
"It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all... :-)"
"Anyone who has got a book collection and a garden wants for nothing."
"The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes."
"So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war."
"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
"I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
"A musicologist is a man who can read music but can't hear it."
"The more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best."
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read."
"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."
"The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath."
"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."
"As I know more of mankind I expect less of them, and am ready now to call a man a good man upon easier terms than I was formerly."
"I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level."
"We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read."
"To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations."
"It's not that some people have willpower and some don't. It's that some people are ready to change and others are not."
"I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always."
"I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you."
"Drink nothing without seeing it; sign nothing without reading it."
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
"Never tell a man you can read him through and through; most people prefer to be thought enigmas."
"For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth."
"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
"Well, all I know is what I read in the papers."
"If you can read this, thank a teacher."
"Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it."
"What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure."
"By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed."
"If you believe everything you read, better not read."
"Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours."
"When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears."
"There are many methods for predicting the future. For example, you can read horoscopes, tea leaves, tarot cards, or crystal balls. Collectively, these methods are known as 'nutty methods.' Or you can put well-researched facts into sophisticated computer models, more commonly referred to as 'a complete waste of time.'"
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul."
"It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can."
"Usenet is like Tetris for people who still remember how to read."
"I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom."
"There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject."
"A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future."
"There are two ways of disliking poetry; one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope."
"To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest."
"Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects."
"No, I haven't read the New Testament, but I read the Old Testament and liked it very, very much."
"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
"I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself."
"I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book."
"If you sincerely desire a 'truly' well-rounded education, you must study the extremists, the obscure and 'nutty'. You need the balance! Your poor brain is already being impregnated with middle-of-the-road crap, twenty-four hours a day, 'no matter what'. Network TV, newspapers, radio, magazines at the supermarket... even if you never watch, read, listen, or leave your house, even if you are deaf and blind, the 'telepathic pressure alone' of the uncountable normals surrounding you will insure that you are automatically well-grounded in consensus reality."
"One must have a heart of stone to read the death of Little Nell without laughing."
"No one who has read official documents needs to be told how easy it is to conceal the essential truth under the apparently candid and all- disclosing phrases of a voluminous and particularizing report...."
"One may as well be asleep as to read for anything but to improve his mind and morals, and regulate his conduct."
"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading."
"It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything."
"When I was young I had an elderly friend who used often to ask me to stay with him in the country. He was a religious man and he read prayers to the assembled household every morning. But he had crossed out in pencil all the passages that praised God. He said that there was nothing so vulgar as to praise people to their faces and, himself a gentleman, he could not believe that God was so ungentlemanly as to like it."
"Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."
"If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities; in the expert's mind there are few."
"I was always puzzled by the fact that people have a great deal of trouble and pain when and if they are forced or feel forced to change a belief or circumstance which they hold dear. I found what I believe is the answer when I read that a Canadian neurosurgeon discovered some truths about the human mind which revealed the intensity of this problem. He conducted some experiments which proved that when a person is forced to change a basic belief or viewpoint, the brain undergoes a series of nervous sensations equivalent to the most agonizing torture."
"Till a man can judge whether they be truths or not, his understanding is but little improved, and thus men of much reading, though greatly learned, but may be little knowing."
"Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them."
"The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freigthed with truth and beauty."
"The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, 'The medicines of the soul.'"
"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."
"The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."
"That ready wit, which you so partially allow me, ... may create many admirers; but, take my word for it, it makes few friends. It shines and dazzles like the noonday sun, but, like that, too, it is very apt to scorch, and therefore is always feared.The milder morning and evening light and heat of that planet soothe and calm our minds. Never seek for wit; if it present itself, well and good; but even then, let your judgement interpose, and take care that it be not at the expense of anybody."
"Anyone who says businessmen deal in facts, not fiction, has never read old five-year projections."
"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half."
"When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you will have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness, and your own duty."
"Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it."
"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
"I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak."
"You should always believe what you read in the newspapers, for that makes them more interesting."
"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day."
"All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their own peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their own peril."
"Don't believe anything you read on the net. Except this. Well, including this, I suppose."
"We notice things that don't work. We don't notice things that do. We notice computers, we don't notice pennies. We notice e-book readers, we don't notice books."
"The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible."
"Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of."
"Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice."
"I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way."
"Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another."
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy."
"The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'."
"Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of."
"The words 'figure' and 'fictitious' both derive from the same Latin root 'fingere'. Beware!"
"The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep."
"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
"One picture is worth a thousand words."
"For me, words are a form of action, capable of influencing change."
"There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch."
"The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
"You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results."
"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them."
"We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words."
"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."
"One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
"We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys."
"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
"In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings."
"When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say, learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind."
"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
"Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in the three monosyllables: 'Do not try.'"
"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
"Let thy speech be short, comprehending much in a few words."
"Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
"Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them."
"Do not accustom yourself to use big words for little matters."
"Grasp the subject, the words will follow."
"The words 'I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."
"Words calculated to catch everyone may catch no one."
"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them."
"We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way."
"One kind word can warm three winter months."
"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood."
"Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon-balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today."
"You're alive. Do something. The directive in life, the moral imperative was so uncomplicated. It could be expressed in single words, not complete sentences. It sounded like this: Look. Listen. Choose. Act."
"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, and that one word is 'to be prepared'."
"A companion's words of persuasion are effective."
"The outcome of the war is in our hands; the outcome of words is in the council."
"There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."
"The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses him up to dance and brings forth words which were better unspoken."
"Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."
"If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse withhis friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has."
"He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
"Words are the physicians of the mind diseased."
"Words have a longer life than deeds."
"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise."
"One word
Frees us of all the weight and pain of life:
That word is love."
"Word is a shadow of a deed."
"False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."
"Do not let your deeds belie your words, lest when you speak in church someone may say to himself, 'Why do you not practice what you preach?'"
"Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word."
"Use soft words and hard arguments."
"'Reality' is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes."
"I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me."
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
"Jingshen is the Mandarin word for spirit and vivacity. It is an important word for those who would lead, because above all things, spirit and vivacity set effective organizations apart from those that will decline and die."
"If you cry 'Forward!' you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. Don't you see that if, without doing so, you call out the word to both a mond and revolutionary, they will go in directions precisely opposite?"
"It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like 'What about lunch?'"
"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."
"Without trust, words become the hollow sound of a wooden gong. With trust, words become life itself."
"Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection."
"Words -- so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them."
"Words divide us, actions unite us."
"The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them."
"Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life."
"Love is my Sword,
Goodness my Armor,
And Humor my Shield."
"Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease."
"Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs. I am haunted by waters."
"Words without actions are the assassins of idealism."
"To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, tobabes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony."
"Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness."
"When I say beautiful things, I'm not necessarily living them; when I live them, the beautiful thing is that words aren't necessary."
"Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few."
"Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions."
"We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other."
"Knowledge without know-how is sterile. We use the word 'academic' in a pejorative sense to identify this limitation."
"Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts."
"It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship."
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
"The thought manifests as the word; The word manifests as the deed; The deed develops into habit; And habit hardens into character. So watch the thought and its ways with care, And let it spring from love Born out of concern for all beings."
"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking."
"All the big corporations depreciate their possessions, and you can, too, provided you use them for business purposes. For example, if you subscribe to the Wall Street Journal, a business-related newspaper, you can deduct the cost of your house, because, in the words of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger in a landmark 1979 tax decision: 'Where else are you going to read the paper? Outside? What if it rains?'"
"I've got one word for the eighties. One word. Handguns. Disposable Handguns."
"It is with words as with sunbeams. The more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."
"We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ... not just pretty words, Fester."
"Last words are for people who haven't said anything in life."
"...in the lexicon of the political class, the word 'sacrifice' means that the citizens are supposed to mail even more of their income to Washington so that the political class will not have to sacrifice the pleasure of spending it."
"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not."
"It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals."
"Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it."
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence."
"A careless speech writer includes the word 'paradigm' in President Reagan's speech on superconductivity. Yes, he pronounces it 'paradijum.'"
"The Ten Commandments contain 297 words, the Bill of Rights 463 words, and Lincoln's Gettysburg Address 266 words. A recent federal directive regulating the price of cabbage contains 26,911 words."
"In Mexico we have a word for sushi: bait."
"LOVE: A word properly applied to our delight in particular kinds of food; sometimes metaphorically spoken of the favorite objects of all our appetites."
"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
"Duty then is the sublimest word in the English language. You should do your duty in all things. You can never do more, you should never wish to do less."
"When I hear the word 'culture' I reach for my gun."
"One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word."
"I like the word `indolence.' it makes my laziness seem classy."
"Whosoever shall not fall by the sword or by famine, shall fall by pestilence, so why bother shaving?"
"Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood."
"If it is true that words have meanings, why don't we throw away words and keep just the meanings?"
"For I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and big words Bother me."
"The words `I am...' are potent words; be careful what you hitch them to. The thing you're claiming has a way of reaching back and claiming you."
"O words of love, O words divine!
The silver thought, the golden line!
Of all men's words, there's none so fine,
As these three words: 'I've got mine!'"
"'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone. 'It means just what I choose it to mean - neither more or less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.'
'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.'"
"Before emphasizing what I believe, perhaps I should point out what I do not believe, or what I no longer believe: I no longer believe in the magic of the spoken word. It signifies not order but disorder. It does not eliminate chaos, it only concealsit. It no longer carries men's hopes but distorts them. It has ceased to be a vehicle, only to become an obstacle. It does not signify sharing but compromise."
"All last year we tried to teach him English, and the only word he learned was million."
"Not till we are lost, in other words, not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize the infinite extent of our relations."
"'Careful with fire' is good advise we know.
'Careful with words' is ten times doubly so."
"If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted."
"The unspoken word never does harm."
"It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few."
"Silence is one of the great arts of conversation, as allowed by Cicero himself, who says, 'there is not only an art, but an eloquence in it.' A well bred woman may easily and effectually promote the most useful and elegant conversation without speaking a word. The modes of speech are scarcely more variable than the modes of silence."
"As bad as physical disease is for the eyes, there is another disease which can ruin your relationships. It is the 'I' disease where your conversation contains the words, 'I', 'me', 'my', and 'mine', every eight to tens words. If these words were removed from most people's conversation they would have nothing to say."
"The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word."
"When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words."
"One thing you can give and still keep is your word."
"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."
"In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker."
"What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled."
"Words can be like baseball bats when used maliciously."
"It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return."
"He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero."
"One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard."
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used."
"Tsze-Kung asked, saying, 'Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?' The Master said, 'Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.'"
"The finest words in the world are only vain sounds if you cannot understand them."
"Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us."
"There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life."
"By words the mind is winged."
"Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color."
"I never told my religion nor scrutinize that of another. I never attempted to make a convert nor wished to change another's creed. I have judged of others' religion by their lives, for it is from our lives and not from our words that our religion must be read. By the same test must the world judge me."
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
"The Scripture vouches Solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words."
"There are fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is surely yours is the present, hence this is the time to speak the word of appreciation and sympathy, to do the generous deed, to forgive the fault of a thoughtless friend, to sacrifice self a little more for others. Today is the day in which to express your noblest qualities of mind and heart, to do at least one worthy thing which you have long postponed, and to use your God-given abilities for the enrichment of someone less fortunate. Today you can make your life - significant and worthwhile. The present is yours to do with as you will."
"I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias."
"There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves in the place of those who uttered the words, and try to divine how they would have dealt with the unforeseen situation; and, evidence of what they would have done, they are by no means final."
"I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
"'Luck' is a very good word if you put a P before it."
"Love is to man an embarrassment, even a word; it is to a woman an excuse for existence, especially the word."
"Words are the leaves of the tree of language, of which, if some fall away, a new succession takes their place."
"The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them."
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away."
"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity."
"It is not a lucky word, this name 'impossible'; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths."
"It is a poor wit who lives by borrowing the words, decisions, inventions and actions of others."
"Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words."
"It was a grand trait of the old Roman that with him one and the same word meant both honor and honesty."
"Today's news was published by word of mouth in the streets of ancient Athens."
"Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on."
"An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words."
"Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A 'you can do it' when things are tough."
"We are students of words; we are shut up in schools, and colleges, and recitation rooms, for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a bag of wind, a memory of words, and do not know a thing."
"Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character."
"By the time the child can draw more than scribble, by the age of four or five years, an already well-formed body of conceptual knowledge formulated in language dominates his memory and controls his graphic work. Drawings are graphic accounts of essentially verbal processes. As an essentially verbal education gains control, the child abandons his graphic efforts and relies almost entirely on words. Language has first spoilt drawing and then swallowed it up completely."
"A grandfather was walking through his yard when he heard his granddaugther repeating the alphabet in a tone of voice that sounded like a prayer. He asked her what she was doing. The little girl explained: 'I'm praying, but I can't think of exactly the right words, so I'm just saying all the letters, and God will put them together for me, because He knows what I'm thinking.'"
"Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the bible is filled, it would seem more consistent that we called it the word of a demonthan the Word of God. It is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind."
"If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft. Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word `National'."
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
"Rem tene, verba sequntur
(Keep to the subject, and the words will follow)"
"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."
"There's a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
"When the grandmothers of today hear the word ``Chippendales,'' they don't necessary think of chairs."
"You may regret your silence once, but you will regret your words often."
"There are tones of voices that mean more than words."
"A threat is basically a means for establishing a bargaining position by inducing fear in the subject. When a threat is used, it should always be implied that the subject himself is to blame by using words such as 'You leave me no other choice but to...'"
"When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are."
"Words are the pen of the heart, but music is the pen of the soul."
"A leader must be constantly aware of the power of his words .... and his silences."
"Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one, a moment, in childhood when it first occurred to you that you don't go on for ever. It must have been shattering- stamped into one's memory. And yet Ican't remember it. It never occurred to me at all. What does one make of that? We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the words for it, before we know that there are words, out we come, bloodied and squalling with the knowledge that for all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure."
"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love."
"The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."
"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
"I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good."
"There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought."
"A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority."
"Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it."
"To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
"Perhaps the reader may ask, of what consequence is it whether the author's exact language is preserved or not, provided we have his thought? The answer is, that inaccurate quotation is a sin against truth. It may appear in any particular instance to be a trifle, but perfection consists in small things, and perfection is no trifle."
"If you steal from one author, it's plagiarism; if you steal from many, it's research."
"The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds."
"Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external."
"Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast."
"I do not believe the expenditure of $2.50 for a book entitles the purchaser to the personal friendship of the author."
"If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth."
"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter?"
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."
"The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs.'"
"Write a wise saying and your name will live forever."
"The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it."
"The cure for writer's cramp is writer's block."
"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on."
"If they give you ruled paper, write the other way."
"I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether."
"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."
"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity."
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor."
"You ask me why I do not write something....I think one's feelings waste themselves in words, they ought all to be distilled into actions and into actions which bring results."
"Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment."
"Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present."
"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
"If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."
"In comparing various authors with one another, I have discovered that some of the gravest and latest writers have transcribed, word for word, from former works, without making acknowledgment."
"There is nothing to write about, you say. Well then, write and let me know just this - that there is nothing to write about; or tell me in the good old style if you are well. That's right. I am quite well."
"Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."
"Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium."
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are rotten,
either write things worth reading or do things worth the writing."
"In order to write about life, first you must live it!"
"I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop."
"Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself."
"SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD:
Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and go to the Botanical Gardens with that special someone. Will obtain plastic surgery if necessary."
"There was a young woman named Jenny,
Whose limericks weren't worth a penny.
Her rhythm and rhyme
Were perfectly fine
But whenever she tried to write any,
She always had one line too many."
"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."
"Foolish writers and readers are created for each other."
"Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book."
"Reporter: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words."
"Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
"Writers have two main problems. One is writer's block, when the words won't come at all and the other is logorrhea, when the words come so fast that they can hardly get to the wastebasket in time."
"Any person of average intelligence could write a better commentary than he does. He hasn't covered a story in years."
"As long as I am an American citizen and American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject."
"A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer."
"It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance."
"Philip Roth is a good writer, but I wouldn't want to shake hands with him."
"Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person."
"Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy."
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
"The demonstration that no possible combination of known substances, known forms of machinery and known forms of force, can be united in a practical machine by which man shall fly long distances through the air, seems to the writer as complete as it is possible for the demonstration of any physical fact to be."
"Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer. Be what you say; and, within the rules of prudence, say what you are."
"One of the amusements of idleness is reading without the fatigue of attention, and the world, therefore, swarms with writers whose wish is not to be studied but to be read."
"We have more poets than judges and interpreters of poetry. It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one."
"A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory."
"It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one."
"Every child is musical. Unfortunately this natural gift is squelched before it has time to develop. From my all life experience I remember being laughed at because my voice and the words I sang didn't please someone. My second grade teacher, Miss Stone would not let me sing with the rest of the class because she judged my voice as not musical and she said I threw the class off key. I believed her which led to the blockage of my appreciation of music and blocked my ability to write poetry. Fortunately at the age of 57 I had a significant emotional event which unblocked my ability to composed poetry which many people believe have lyrical qualities."
"Men of strong minds and who think for themselves, should not be discouraged on finding occasionally that some of their best ideas have been anticipated by former writers; they will neither anathematize others nor despair themselves. They will rather go on discovering things before discovered, until they are rewarded with a land hitherto unknown, an empire indisputably their own, both right of conquest and of discovery."
"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live."
"To write simply is as difficult as to be good."
"Pablo Picasso resisted school stubbornly and seemed completely unable to learn to read or write. Other students grew used to seeing him come late with his pet pigeon -- and with the paintbrush he always carried as if it were an extension of his own body."
"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer. He is a man who has signed a contract with his conscious and his sense of duty."
"First, I do not sit down at my desk to put into verse something that is already clear in my mind. If it were clear in my mind, I should have no incentive or need to write about it. We do not write in order to be understood; we write in order to understand."
"If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge"
"Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss."
"An ambassador is a man of virtue sent to lie abroad for his country; a news-writer is a man without virtue who lies at home for himself."
"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language. :-)"
"If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly."
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
"I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it."
"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."
"For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed."
"Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn't mean we deserve to conquer the Universe."
"Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
"Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards."
"There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
"Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility."
"Never be entirely idle; but either be reading, or writing, or praying or meditating or endeavoring something for the public good."
"Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."
"No nation ancient or modern ever lost the liberty of freely speaking, writing, or publishing their sentiments, but forthwith lost their liberty in general and became slaves."
"Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man's thinking or his writing."
"Television has raised writing to a new low."
"Scriptures, n. The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based."
"...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded..."
"No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth."
"My writing is like a ten gallon spring. It can issue from the ground anywhere at all. On smooth ground it rushes swiftly on and covers a thouasand li in a single day without difficulty. When it twists and turns among mountains and rocks, it fits itsform to things it meets: unknowable. What can be known is, it always goes where it must go, always stops where it cannot help stopping -- nothing else. More than that, even I cannot know."
"Report writing, like motor-car driving and love-making, is one of those activities which almost every Englishman thinks he can do well without instruction. The results are of course usually abominable."
"In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others."
"Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself."
"Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once."
"Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity."
"The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance."
"We pass the word around; we ponder how the case is put by different people, we read the poetry; we meditate over the literature; we play the music; we change our minds; we reach an understanding. Society evolves this way, not by shouting each other down, but by the unique capacity of unique, individual human beings to comprehend each other."
"My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably."
"The affair between Margot Asquith and Margot Asquith will live as one of the prettiest love stories in all literature."
"Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo Clinic."
"Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead."
"Proverbs are the literature of reason, or the statements of absolute truth, without qualification. Like the sacred books of each nation, they are the sanctuary of its intuitions."
"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business."
"What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real."
"This duality has been reflected in classical as well as modern literature as reason versus passion, or mind and the 'unconscious.' There are moments in each of our lives when our verbal-intellect suggests one course, and our 'heart' or intuition, another."
"Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it."
"The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary."
"I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars."
"A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it."
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
"This paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop."
"The covers of this book are too far apart."
"Wear the old coat and buy the new book."
"Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them."
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers."
"It was a book to kill time for those who like it better dead."
"Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development."
"This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they never existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book..."
"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
"From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it."
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book."
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
"How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book."
"The only obligation to which in advance we may hold a novel, without incurring the accusation of being arbitrary, is that it be interesting."
"The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books."
"Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?"
"Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year."
"Never judge a book by its movie."
"Never read a book through merely because you have begun it."
"Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier."
"Do give books - religious or otherwise - for Christmas. They're never fattening, seldom sinful, and permanently personal."
"Learn as much by writing as by reading."
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."
"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind."
"I have read your book and much like it."
"Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it."
"This book fills a much-needed gap."
"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written."
"Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will be as much influenced by the former as by the latter."
"Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop."
"In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight. He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity."
"To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser."
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
"Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body."
"I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach."
"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
"When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me."
"I have never known any good to come from violent or vulgar words."
"The faster you read it, the faster you forget it."
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|  | | | | Introduction: Why We Like Chekhov | | | A Blunder | 3 | | A Misfortune | 5 | | A Trifle from Life | 17 | | Difficult People | 22 | | Hush! | 30 | | Champagne | 33 | | Enemies | 39 | | The Kiss | 51 | | Kashtanka | 67 | | The Grasshopper | 85 | | Neighbours | 108 | | Ward No. 6 | 124 | | An Anonymous Story | 172 | | Peasants | 237 | | Gooseberries | 266 | | About Love | 276 | | The Darling | 284 | | The New Villa | 295 | | On Official Duty | 308 | | The Lady with the Dog | 323 |
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