False promises Quote by Ray Bradbury

“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

“Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downward through the mud and slush of opinion, and prejudice, and tradition, and delusion,…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A word to the unwise. Torch every book. Char every page. Burn every word to ash. Ideas are incombustible. And therein lies your real…

— Ellen Hopkins

“Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the…

— Nenia Campbell

“If our life were an eternal standing by the window, if we could remain there forever, like hovering smoke, with the same moment of…

— Fernando Pessoa

"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal.…

— Hermann Hesse

“Now and then there are readings that make the hairs on the neck, the non-existent pelt, stand on end and tremble, when every word…

— A.S. Byatt

It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you that you may rediscover illuminating phrases and sentences…

— Wilferd Peterson

“And every writer cherishes the dream of setting the young on fire, even if only by a cigarette butt tossed casually over the shoulder,…

— Clive James

“All is clouded by desire: as fire by smoke, as a mirror by dust ...Through these it blinds the soul.”

— Anonymous

“He wondered if burned books made a special kind of smoke that clung to the world forever, in the same way that a book,…

— Suzanne Selfors

“Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: When you are reconciled to the fact that each is…

— W. Somerset Maugham