Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a direct violation of the Constitutions of the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Age. The Teaching of Reading… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me,… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“And winning; that can be heavy on your back, too, like a monkey. You drop that load too when you find yourself an excuse." ... And Bert seemed to relax, knowing he had scored, had pushed his way through Eddie’s consciousness and through his defenses, although Eddie still only partly understood all of what Bert had said, and was already… — Walter Tevis Copy Share
“Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“It changed the life of mankind more radically than the printing press. It created suburbs and a hundred other dependencies—sexual and economic and narcotic—upon the automobile. And the automobile paved the way for more profound – more inward- inner dependencies upon Television and then robots, and finally the ultimate and predictable conclusion of it all: the perfection of the chemistry… — Walter Tevis Copy Share
“He was sick, sick from the long dangerous trip he had taken, sick from all the medicine —the pills, the inoculations, the inhaled gases… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.” — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“It all began, I suppose, with learning to build fires—to warm the cave and keep the predators out. And it ended with time-release Valium.” — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
