“I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.”
Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer
“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
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American author and humorist 1835–1910Related quotes
“An honest book is almost as good as a friend.”
Robert Charles Wilson book Spin
Source: Spin (2005), p. 261
“Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.”
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799–1888) American teacher and writer
Source: Tablets
“A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.”
Martin Farquhar Tupper (1810–1889) English writer and poet
Of Reading.
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Frank Chodorov (1887–1966) American libertarian thinker
Source: One is A Crowd: Reflections of An Individualist (1952), p. 122
