#ok

Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

#clever #existing #nine-tenths #nonsense

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! ↗

#friend #overlooks #success #tolerates #true

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ↗

— George Gissing

#book #excellent #first #first time #friend

Not really, and actually my cholesterol was 190 when I had the heart attack. 190, which isn't that high. I took it down to about 130 and it's probably about 140 or 145 now. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#actually #attack #cholesterol #down #had

Music should be able to invoke the natural emotions in all human beings. Music is not notes fixed on apiece of paper. ↗

— Toru Takemitsu

#apiece #beings #emotions #fixed #human

Not as ours the books of old - Things that steam can stamp and fold; Not as ours the books of yore - Rows of type, and nothing more. ↗

— Austin Dobson

#fold #more #nothing #old #ours

Good writing is supposed to evoke sensation in the reader - not the fact that it is raining, but the feeling of being rained upon. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#evoke #fact #feeling #good #good writing

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications. ↗