The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gun... - Christopher Morley
"The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win."
"The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win."
"The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness."
"When you sell a man a book you don't sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there's all heaven and earth in a book, a real book."
"There is only one success-to be able to spend life in your own way."
"There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way."
"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking."