Books Quote by Alexander Pushkin

“His early book, not much noticed when it was published, was now on many reading lists, and the younger generation of historians accepted it…

— Saul Bellow

“History lessons were superficial. The past was not set in stone, and was occasionally rewritten.”

— Hyeonseo Lee

“People kept their books, she thought, not because they were likely to read them again but because these objects contained the past--the texture of…

— Tom Rachman

“Were a man to be totally deprived of memory, he would be incapable of forming any just opinion; everything about him would seem a…

— Thomas Paine

“The past is as easy to travel into as turning the pages of a book...”

— S.R. Ford

“[The past] has a way of hanging around, demanding we understand it and weave it into ourselves so that we can go on.”

— Margaret Coel

“If books had not bound together the experiences of former generations, the shackles of later generations in their forgetfulness would not have been loosed.”

— Mahbud

“History, like memories themselves, tended to become distorted with the passing of time, or worse, corrupted with the agendas of those writing it.”

— Terry Goodkind

“…found the use of actual old-school books off putting, but over time, he'd learned there was something very satisfying to the turning of pages,…

— Neal Shusterman

Still, looking through the old volumes was soothing, because thinking of the past made the present seem a little less real.

— Dodie Smith

“We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past.”

— James Elroy Flecker

“Books are the best type of influence of the past...Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson