“You can’t judge a book while it’s on fire.”
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
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“Some days you can’t see the forest for the fire.”
Ron English (1959) American artist
Ron English's Fauxlosophy (2016)
Joanna Russ (1937–2011) American author
killing people is bad
"Books" (review column), The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, December 1968
Non-fiction
Bob Black (1951) American anarchist
The Libertarian as Conservative (1984)
Context: Murray Rothbard thinks egalitarianism is a revolt against nature, but his day is 24 hours long, just like everybody else’s. If you spend most of your waking life taking orders or kissing ass, if you get habituated to hierarchy, you will become passive-aggressive, sado-masochistic, servile and stupefied, and you will carry that load into every aspect of the balance of your life. Incapable of living a life of liberty, you’ll settle for one of its ideological representations, like libertarianism. You can’t treat values like workers, hiring and firing them at will and assigning each a place in an imposed division of labor. The taste for freedom and pleasure can’t be compartmentalized.
“You can’t study human nature in books. Books is a hindrance more than anything else. p. 25”
George Washington Plunkitt (1842–1924) New York State Senator
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, Chapter 6, To Hold Your District: Study Human Nature and Act Accordin’
Joe Trohman (1984) American musician
My Heart Will Always Be The B-Side To My Tongue (2004), Ultimate Guitar Interview (2008)
Franz Marc (1880–1916) German painter
Quote in a letter to Kandinsky, (c. Dec. 1911), quoted in 'Vezin 150'; as quoted in Movement, Manifesto, Melee: The Modernist Group, 1910-1914, Milton A. Cohen, Lexington Books, Sep 14, 2004, p. 67
1911 - 1914
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
“Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.”
Aldous Huxley book Brave New World
Variant: You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
Source: Brave New World (1932), Ch. 3<!-- p. 50 -->