“What can be hidden in a book?”
Lemony Snicket
Lemony Snicket: The Unauthorized Autobiography (2002)
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American novelist, children's writer, creator of Lemony Sni… 1970Related quotes
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Maxims
Success
1870s, Society and Solitude (1870)
“What kind of life can you have in a house without books?”
Source: Flight
1st Public Talk, Bangalore, India (30 January 1971)
1970s
Dedication
Casuals of the Sea (1916)
Context: To those who live and toil and lowly die,
Who past beyond and leave no lasting trace,
To those from whom our queen Prosperity
Has turned away her fair and fickle face;
To those frail craft upon the restless Sea
Of Human Life, who strike the rocks uncharted,
Who loom, sad phantoms, near us, drearily,
Storm-driven, rudderless, with timbers started;
To those poor Casuals of the way-worn earth,
The feckless wastage of our cunning schemes,
This book is dedicate, their hidden worth
And beauty I have seen in vagrant dreams!
The things we touch, the things we dimly see,
The stiff strange tapestries of human thought,
The silken curtains of our fantasy
Are with their sombre histories o'erwrought.
And yet we know them not, our skill is vain to find
The mute soul's agony, the visions of the blind.
“Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it?”
Rand al'Thor
(15 September 1992)
