Book Quote by R. D. Laing Download Open image “Few books today are forgivable.” — R. D. Laing ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Today
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
Books shouldn't be daunting, they should be funny, exciting and wonderful. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive. — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart. — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We must remember that we are living in an age in which the ground is shifting and the foundations are shaking. I cannot answer… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
Our behavior is a function of our experience. We act according to the way we see things. If our experience is destroyed, our behavior… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
How do we define, how do we describe, how do we explain and/or understand ourselves? What sort of creatures do we take ourselves to… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. And because we fail to notice that we… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The range of what we think and do is limited by what we fail to notice. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
In the society of men the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
The schizophrenic may indeed be mad. He is mad. He is not ill. I have been told by people who have been through the… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
What is to be done? We who are still half alive, living in the often fibrillating heartland of a senescent capitalism -- can we… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
From the alienated starting point of our pseudo-sanity, everything is equivocal. Our sanity is not "true" sanity. Their madness is not "true" madness. The… — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Some books are not read in the right way because they have skipped a stage of opinion, assume a crystallization of information in society… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and a backache and… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image
