There is nothing too profound for the right interpreter to grind into banality.
Mar 272018
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
There is nothing too profound for the right interpreter to grind into banality.
Many books are good for no one, but no books are good for everyone.
The writer proposes: the reader disposes.
Universal literacy guarantees an imbecile press.
Influential books usually have a few readers, who usually have a great many.
Your shelves should not contain the books you’ve read, but the books you’re going to read.
Almost no one is worth reading on more than one subject.
When you find yourself in a book, you lose the book.
Writers can write nonsense without ill effect. It is when readers put up with, then expect, and finally demand it that civilization ends.
There are ways to praise a book that discourage reading it.