Librarians Quote by Jorge Luis Borges

“Words, displaced and mutilated words, words of others, were the poor pittance left him by the hours and the centuries.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“For Alwyn's grandfather, who was known as "the greatest talker in the country," used words which no one else understood, words which he did…

— Glenway Wescott

“But in the name of the most holy, Mosca, of all the people you could have taken up with, why Eponymous Clent?" Because I’d…

— Frances Hardinge

“He turned away and I turned to him in vivid heat to look on the sun-dried world. The groves and towers were gone. The…

— Jeanette Winterson

“Words, I’ve come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without…

— Alena Graedon

“For every man there are certain words that are as if closer and more intimate to him than any others. And often, unexpectedly, in…

— Nikolai Gogol

“Men said things like "peace in our time" or "an empire that will last a thousand years," and less than half a lifetime later…

— Terry Pratchett

“His language was, as I say, under great provocation, violent and unusual. He had a trick of using words which never were on land…

— Edgar Wallace

Words are often things also, and very precious, especially on the gravest occasions. Without "words," and the truth of things that is in them,…

— Leigh Hunt

“Words are things. The words he is in possession of he cannot be deprived of. Their authority transcends his ignorance of their meaning.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must be just.…

— Émile Zola

“Other men condemned to exile and captivity, if they survive, despair; the man of letters may reckon those days as the sweetest of his…

— Benjamin Disraeli