Some Reasons Why (1881)
Context: Suppose then, that I do read this Bible honestly, fairly, and when I get through I am compelled to say, “The book is not true.” If this is the honest result, then you are compelled to say, either that God has made no revelation to me, or that the revelation that it is not true, is the revelation made to me, and by which I am bound. If the book and my brain are both the work of the same Infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and the brain do not agree? Either God should have written a book to fit my brain, or should have made my brain to fit his book.
“It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.”
“Books, the children of the brain.”
Sect. 1
A Tale of a Tub (1704)
Source: A Tale Of A Tub And Other Writings
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“Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.”
Source: The Prince of Tides, character Henry Wingo, chapter 2, page 53 (e-book edition)
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Letters Of William Blake https://archive.org/details/lettersofwilliam002199mbp (1956), p. 50
1790s
“She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain”
Variant: She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
Source: Work: A Story of Experience
“I told my brain., said my brain. My brain refused to get out of my head. Inconsiderate brain.”
Source: The Hammer of Thor
“The knowledge of God seeped out of my brain and into my heart.”
Blue Like Jazz (2003, Nelson Books)
