All Quotes By Tag: Books
“Behold the crucifix; what does it symbolize? Pallid incompetence hanging on a tree.Compton”
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“Too long the dead hand has been permitted to sterilize living thought!Compton”
“I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your commandments.Compton”
“Before none of your printed idols do I bend in acquiescence, he who saith “thou shalt not” to me is my mortal foe!Compton”
“No hoary falsehood shall conventions that do not lead to my earthly success and happiness.Compton”
“I raise up in stern invasion the standard of the strong!Compton”
“I gaze into the glassy eye of yoursome god, and pluck him by the beard; I uplift a broad-axe, and split open his worm-eaten skull!Compton”
“From history books one should at best believe the punctuation. The rest is uncertain, incomplete, distorted, exaggerated or even completely invented.”
“Many writers write because they’ve been there, seen that, did it and burnt their fingers”
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“If I can write, who possibly can’t. Even drawing a line in the sand is writing”
“You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they only germinate after fire, and sometimes the burned landscape blooms most lavishly.”
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“Don’t believe in everything that is written. Not everything that is written is true”
“One author said “I write because I want to live a footprint in the sands of history.” It’s hard to live a footprint in the sands of history when giants are passing through the same sands unless you are one of the giants”
“Even if all knowledge could be found in books, where it is mixed in with so many useless things and confusingly heaped in such large volumes, it would take longer to read those books than we have to live in this life and more effort to select the useful things than to find them oneself”
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“The sun loved me again when it saw that the stars would not abandon me.”
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