The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler
The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them. – Samuel Butler
Human life is as evanescent as the morning dew or a flash of lightning. – Samuel Butler
If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death. – Samuel Butler
The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way. – Samuel Butler
Readers of novels. I sometimes think that I could, if put to it, pick the real readers of novels out of a crowd. They have a strangeness about the eye, almost as if there were an extra bit of lens on the cornea…. The glance of a reader shows me a soul with a different orientation to time… – Sven Birkerts (b.1951), “Notes from a Confession,” The Agni Review, No.22 (1985)