Books Quote by Samuel Butler

“I can't bear literary snobbery.”

— Sara Sheridan

“You can never read bad literature too little, nor good literature too much.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Revere those things beyond science which really matter and about which it is so difficult to speak.”

— Werner Heisenberg

“Science comes and goes, but literature is forever.”

— Michael Flax

“A brick could be used to help you become the next Great American Novelist. Hopefully after you use it to crack your own skull,…

— Jarod Kintz

“This is your genius: your own profound desire to write. Your love of words and language, your attempt to get to what poet Donald…

— Kim Addonizio

“I guess we're all, or most of us, the wards of that nineteenth-century science which denied existence to anything it could not measure or…

— John Steinbeck

“He was a scholar, so goddamned intelligent he couldn’t see the writing on the wall. He wanted answers to life’s tragedies when their very…

— Skye Warren

“If I were a mad scientist, I’d use a brick in an angry way. And if I were a mad scientist, I’d use it…

— Jarod Kintz

“A brick could be used to silence your critics. Think of it like a really thick and unchewy piece of chewing gum. 
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— Jarod Kintz

“It is a strange fancy to suppose that science can bring reason to an irrational world, when all it can ever do is give…

— John Gray

“…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies that originate…

— Louisa May Alcott