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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
    Barbara W. Tuchman

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    Barbara W. Tuchman
    “Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

    [Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
    Barbara Tuchman

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    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “Never trust a man who reads only one book.”
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Purity of Blood

  • #4
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.”
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Flanders Panel

  • #5
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “Everyone gets the devil he deserves.”
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas

  • #6
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “What about the future?"
    "We'll talk about the future when it gets here.”
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Queen of the South
    tags: dark

  • #7
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. And when I want to know something, I look it up in books--their memory never fails”
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas

  • #8
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.”
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Club Dumas

  • #9
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.”
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Purity of Blood

  • #10
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte
    “He did not want to think, but it was inevitable that he would.”
    Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Purity of Blood

  • #11
    William Goldman
    “When I was your age, television was called books.”
    William Goldman, The Princess Bride

  • #12
    George Orwell
    “Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
    George Orwell, 1984

  • #13
    George Orwell
    “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
    George Orwell

  • #14
    Pyotr Kropotkin
    “Prisons are universities of crime, maintained by the state.”
    Peter Kropotkin, In Russian and French Prisons

  • #15
    Pyotr Kropotkin
    “It is only those who do nothing who makes no mistake.”
    Peter Kropotkin, Anarchism: A Collection of Revolutionary Writings

  • #16
    Robert W. Service
    “A promise made is a debt unpaid," The Cremation of Sam McGee.”
    Robert W. Service

  • #17
    Victor LaValle
    “Nobody ever thinks of himself as a villain, does he? Even monsters hold high opinions of themselves.”
    Victor LaValle, The Ballad of Black Tom

  • #18
    Victor LaValle
    “Unsupervised reading is a blessing for a certain kind of child”
    Victor LaValle, The Changeling

  • #19
    P. Djèlí Clark
    “Girl, every choice we make is a new tomorrow. Whole worlds waiting to be born.”
    P. Djèlí Clark, Ring Shout

  • #20
    Samuel R. Delany
    “The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.”
    Samuel R. Delany, Empire Star

  • #21
    William Gibson
    “The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.”
    William Gibson

  • #22
    Gahan Wilson
    “When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.”
    Gahan Wilson

  • #23
    T.S. Eliot
    “For last year's words belong to last year's language
    And next year's words await another voice.”
    T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets

  • #24
    “Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
    Harry Crosby, Transit of Venus

  • #25
    T.S. Eliot
    “This is the way the world ends
    Not with a bang but a whimper.”
    T.S. Eliot

  • #26
    Rudyard Kipling
    “Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.”
    Rudyard Kipling

  • #27
    Rudyard Kipling
    “If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;

    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don't deal in lies,
    Or being hated, don't give way to hating,
    And yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise

    If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;
    If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;

    If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build 'em up with worn-out tools

    If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
    And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;

    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
    And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch,
    If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;

    If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds' worth of distance run,
    Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it,
    And - which is more - you'll be a Man, my son!”
    Rudyard Kipling, If: A Father's Advice to His Son

  • #28
    Rudyard Kipling
    “He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
    Rudyard Kipling, Many Inventions

  • #29
    Rudyard Kipling
    “I always prefer to believe the best of everybody; it saves so much trouble”
    Rudyard Kipling

  • #30
    Rudyard Kipling
    “I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.”
    Rudyard Kipling, Under The Deodars



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