
“Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
Source: Grip of the Shadow Plague
“Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it.”
Source: The Sun Also Rises
“A reading-machine, always wound up and going,
He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.”
Prologue, st. 7
A Fable for Critics (1848)
“A book worth reading is worth owning.”
Variant: If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
“I just read and read and read. … I have always enjoyed reading.”
Rules for success
“Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.”
Source: Introduction to Hawk’s Hill in Marion Zimmer Bradley (ed.), Sword and Sorceress 7 (1990), p. 183