Books Aimed

Famous quotes containing the words books and/or aimed:

“Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly explained in a few minutes. A better procedure is to pretend that those books already exist and to offer a summary, a commentary.”
—Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

“Treachery is noble when aimed at tyranny.”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)