Anachronisms Quote by Boris Gunjević

“So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless.”

— Victor Hugo

“As long as ignorance and misery exist in the world, books like the one you are about to read are, perhaps, not entirely useless”

— Victor Hugo

“Why this book? In today’s globalized world, it seems we forget things that happened only a decade ago. Thus, we repeat the mistakes of…

— Thomas Jerome Baker

“I have never read a book that didn’t in some way impact my life”

— jenny

“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look like masterpieces.”

— Jarod Kintz

“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

“The history of interpretation, the skills by which we keep alive in our minds the light and dark of past literature and past humanity…

— Frank Kermode

“If I have not read a book before, it is for all intents and purposes new to me whether it was printed yesterday or…

— William Haizlett

“Books, after all, do not have the same impact whenever we read them.”

— Donald Sassoon

“Here then we are first to consider a book, presented to us by a barbarous and ignorant people, written in an age when they…

— David Hume

“At some point in reading, we realize we have to read not just the books that we'd enjoy, but the books that move us,…

— Nema Al-Araby

“There was something calming in the reticence of all those books, their willingness to wait years, decades even, for the right reader to come…

— Nicholas Carr