Everybody knows my life - it's an open book.
My first book was the book that changed my life.
I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
Each book has a reader, and each reader has a book.
Liesel Meminger: I'm not stealing, I'm borrowing.
There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.
will you be the one reading the book or writing the book
Fukuyama’s thesis that history has climaxed with liberal capitalism may have been widely derided, but it is accepted, even assumed, at the level of the cultural unconscious. It should be remembered, though, that even when Fukuyama advanced it, the ...
The American system is the most ingenious system of control in world history. With a country so rich in natural resources, talent, and labor power the system can afford to distribute just enough wealth to just enough people to limit discontent to a t...
If only there were a dogma to believe in. Everything is contradictory, everything is tangential; there are no certainties anywhere. Everything can be interpreted one way and then again interpreted in the opposite sense. The whole of world history can...
Or consider a story in the Jewish Talmud left out of the Book of Genesis. (It is in doubtful accord with the account of the apple, the Tree of Knowledge, the Fall, and the expulsion from Eden.) In The Garden, God tells Eve and Adam that He has intent...
The sight of books removes sorrows from the heart.
Years know more than books.
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
A pack of cards is the devil's prayer book.
There is no robber worse than a bad book.
There is no worse robber than a bad book.
Reading books removes sorrows from the heart.
A book is a garden carried in the pocket.
History is written by the survivors.
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
