Walter Benjamin
Related The books written by Paul Valéry, Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marshall McLuhan, Gilles De... NORBERT BOLZ Read what you like, not what you’re told to like. That way you’ll read for a lifetime. CAREW PAPRITZ He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that wa... JOHN BELLAIRS E.M. FORSTER PAUL AUSTER Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that ... R.L. STINE A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. FRANCOIS MITTERRAND RALPH WALDO EMERSON Writing a NYT bestseller was a delightful experience. But there are many books which are read by few... RON BRACKIN Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so t... R. L. STINE Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews boo... GEORGE W. S. TROW ROBERTSON DAVIES ALEXANDER POPE HENRY DAVID THOREAU Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will... PAXTON HOOD Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ... PAXTON HOOD Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second nove... KELSEYLEIGH REBER RICHARD K. MORGAN The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over... PAXTON HOOD OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over... PAXTON HOOD The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote ove... PAXTON HOOD L. RON HUBBARD RALPH WALDO EMERSON A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. ANDREI TARKOVSKY OSCAR WILDE A borrower may not lend the thing he borrowed. VIKRANT PARSAI If they read two books then two books will be given to 'First Book,' ELIZABETH MOORE His work was path-breaking when published, and each became a seminal work in the area, by which I me... KATE STITH Be as careful of the books you read, as of the company you keep; for your habits and character will ... PAXTON HOOD A. W. TOZER ALBERT EINSTEIN My father was sleepless most of his life. So by the age of five, I was awake with him all night long... SHERMAN ALEXIE When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read histor... T. B. JOSHUA Out of writing all those books, people were looking for Waldo in his prose. His books are ones that ... DOUG BRINKLEY ITALO CALVINO THOMAS MANN GARTH RISK HALLBERG GAIL HAMILTON RALPH WALDO EMERSON ALEXANDER DUMAS ALEXANDRE DUMAS AMBROSE BIERCE When I did 'Racing Demon' by David Hare, I worked with Paul Giamatti, who had stacks of book... DENIS O'HARE Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow! GABRIELLE DUBOIS JOHN BURROUGHS Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly... VIKTOR FRANKL VICTOR FRANKL FULTON J. SHEEN ITALO CALVINO AYN RAND There's certainly an issue of free speech here. We're not saying by any means that these books shoul... DANIEL GREENE RALPH WALDO EMERSON SIR WALTER SCOTT ROBERTSON DAVIES You must read his articles and books to know the mind of the donor. JACK TEMPLETON EMMA DONOGHUE NICHOLAS SPARKS OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR. HORACE MANN GEORG GRODDECK SHANNON L. ALDER THOMAS PAINE I think an upside to book stocks will come if these two books generate a lot of traffic into booksto... HOWARD TUBIN DAVID THEWLIS JOAQUIN MILLER JOHN RUSKIN WILLIAM OSLER SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Benjamin Stallworth understood his shortcomings and was rendered unhappy by that understanding. He w... MICHAEL MCDOWELL ERICH FROMM ERICH FROMM MIGUEL DE CERVANTES SAAVEDRA MARK TWAIN HARPER LEE ADAM DRIVER NEAL ASHER BENJAMIN FRANKLIN D.H. LAWRENCE HENRY FIELDING Books speak more to a female audience than does his music so these novels give him an opportunity to... KATHLEEN SCHMIDT A book can become your best companion in times of crisis.LIZ HAY CARL SAGAN WILBUR SMITH LEV GROSSMAN JOHN GREEN HENRY FIELDING A person can please people by advising always something of their liking, but they can't be made to r... ANUJ SOMANY A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses... E.N. KIRK JOHN KENNETH GALBRAITH ROBERT A. HEINLEIN DEYTH BANGER MORTIMER J. ADLER The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desir... PIERRE BAYARD Anyone is encouraged to participate in the festival either by creating an edible book or if someone ... VICTORIA HEIDUSCHKE RALPH WALDO EMERSON HENRI MATISSE I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could ... FRANZ WRIGHT ROBERT HARRIS EDITH WHARTON
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Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and him... 
[T]he only luxury he allows himself is buying books, paperback books, mostly novels, American novels... 
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,... 
She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which ca... 
The bookful blockhead ignorantly read,
Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; suc... 
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The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over... 
The freedom of an individual depends upon that individual’s freedom to alter his considerations of... 
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,... 
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written ... 
God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spok... 
Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others ... 
Sections in the bookstore
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Steering between the Scylla of too much and the Charybdis of not-enough, he’d worked hard to proje... 
Whatever an author puts between the two covers of his book is public property; whatever of himself h... 
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms... 
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms... 
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms... 
Emerson's fame as a writer and thinker was firmly established during his lifetime by the books h... 
Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he trul... 
Some religions draw by force of arms; He would draw by force of love. The attraction would not be Hi... 
In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo... 
An Individualist is a man who lives for his own sake and by his own mind; he neither sacrifices hims... 
Then, wearied by the uncertainty and difficulties with which each scheme appeared to be attended, he... 
The clerisy are those who read for pleasure, but not for idleness; who read for pastime but not to k... 
For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the... 
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The first thing naturally when one enters a scholar's study or
library, is to look at his books. O... 
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children wi... 
One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself... 
The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Eve... 
There are matters in that book, said to be done by the express command of God, that are as shocking ... 
It is. I mean people probably know it better than me if you have read the books. I mean, I had not r... 
The soul that feeds on books alone --/ I count that soul exceeding small / That lives alone by book ... 
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement. 
A library represents the mind of its collector, his fancies and foibles, his strength and weakness, ... 
The first thing to be done by a biographer in estimating character is to examine the stubs of his vi... 
By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He ... 
By alienation is meant a mode of experience in which the person experiences himself as an alien. He ... 
...he spent whole days and nights over his books; and thus with little sleeping and much reading his... 
What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his he... 
Dill was off again. Beautiful things floated around in his dreamy head. He could read two books to m... 
There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. Bu... 
With fantasy, one often has to think of a well-loved series before narrowing the selection to a favo... 
Read much, but not many books. 
We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be v... 
...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of h... 
If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a ... 
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His joy was somewhat sullied by immediate awareness that his brother did not fully share it . . .... 
Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now e... 
The characteristics of this kind of reading are perhaps summed up in the word “orthodox,” which ... 
An artist must possess Nature. He must identify himself with her rhythm, by efforts that will prepar... 
All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... 
Though he turned the pages with the sensuous joy of the book-lover, he did not know what he was read... 
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock. 
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori... 
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation. 
America's health care system is neither healthy, caring, nor a system. 
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails. 
An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time ... 
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Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minu... 
God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender. 
I am responsible. Although I may not be able to prevent the worst from happening, I am responsible f... 
Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment. 
She's been on more laps than a napkin. 
Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors. 
Today's gossip is tomorrow's headline. 
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual he... 
He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out o... 
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth wh...