Famous quotes containing the words literary and/or book:
“In general I do not draw well with literary mennot that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (17881824)
“I am afraid I am one of those people who continues to read in the hope of sometime discovering in a book a singleand singularpiece of wisdom so penetrating, so soul stirring, so utterly applicable to my own life as to make all the bad books I have read seem well worth the countless hours spent on them. My guess is that this wisdom, if it ever arrives, will do so in the form of a generalization.”
—Joseph Epstein (b. 1937)
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