No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. – Mary Wortley Montagu
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A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading it. – William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958
This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication. – Logan Pearsall Smith
[The] men of the technostructure are the new and universal priesthood. Their religion is business success; their test of virtue is growth and profit. Their bible is the computer printout; their communion bench is the committee room. – J.K. Galbraith, The Age of Uncertainty, 1977
Going to work for a large company is like getting on a train. Are you going sixty miles an hour or is the train going sixty miles an hour and youre just sitting still? – J. Paul Getty
Life is given to you like a flat piece of land and everything has to be done. I hope that when I am finished, my piece of land will be a beautiful garden, so there is a lot of work. – Jeanne Moreau
