Is it just me or is this like a bad TV sci-fi show?

“I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down." [ Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones , August 8, 1839]”

— Edgar Allan Poe

“There is no friend so faithful as a good book. There is no worse robber than a bad book.”

— Italian proverb

“Good books and bad books, like people, are part and parcel of life. Keep reading, books and people.”

— Vikrmn: CA Vikram Verma

“Among some tossed-out books of my daughter's which I rescued...was one too awful to live. I returned it to the trash, resisting the urge…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“All books are good,’ he said. ‘That’s not true,’ I said. ‘I’ve read some really bad books.’ I was thinking specifically of Anne of…

— Lisa Jewell

“We are lucky to die without having read some books, and without having heard some songs.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Five more minutes of reading this and she'd have been in a coma.”

— Kelly Armstrong

“I was a little cross.I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up.”

— Abraham Lincoln

“Every time I move I squash something said Loathesome.”

— Norman Mailer

I think the biggest survival instinct that Midwesterners possess is self deprecation, it's almost a Buddha-like sense of humor in anything that is difficult…

— Amy Pietz

People who overshare because they think it's endearing can be quite exhausting. Self-deprecation is fine if it's real but anything performative is annoying.

— Matty Healy

“I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you have to…

— Marian Keyes

Adolescents swing from euphoric self-confidence and a kind of narcissistic strength in which they feel invulnerable and even immortal, to despair, self-emptiness, self-deprecation. At…

— Terri E Apter

The author I wish I was reading right now and always is Nora Ephron. I love the humor, the awareness, the sense of self-deprecation.…

— Garance Dore

I think self-deprecation is such a disease, and I want to cure everybody of it and so that's my contribution.

— Margaret Cho