“"He" should be read as "he or she" throughout the book.”
Modern Operating Systems, 3rd ed., p. 2.
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“She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.”
Source: The Marriage Plot
“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”
“Why read the crystal when he can read the book?”
Hansard, House of Commons, 5th series, vol. 468, col. 319.
Speech in the House of Commons, 29 September 1949.
1940s
Context: It has been suggested, I think by the hon. Member for East Aberdeenshire (Mr. Boothby) that the most constructive suggestion he could make was to urge an early General Election and a return of a Tory Government in Britain. Why on earth should he want to prophesy what might result from a Tory Government when history has the record for him? Why read the crystal when he can read the book?
“A man is known by the books he reads.”
Source: Journey Within (1947), Ch. 2 : The Three Revelations
Context: No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself. And the most objective books are the most deceptive. The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.
“She reads a lot of books. Good things, books.”
“We should read much, we should not read many books.”
Multum legendum esse, non multa.
Letter 9, 15.
Letters, Book VII
