“buying books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.”
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) German philosopher
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Arthur Schopenhauer book Parerga and Paralipomena
Vol. 2, Ch. 23, § 296a
Parerga and Paralipomena (1851), Counsels and Maxims
Source: Counsels and Maxims (The Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer)
“For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”
Karl Lagerfeld (1933–2019) German fashion designer
Andy Rooney (1919–2011) writer, humorist, television personality
[Andy Rooney, w:Andy Rooney, 9, Twofers, Years of Minutes, 2003, PublicAffairs, 978-1586482114]
Helene Hanff book 84, Charing Cross Road
Source: 84, Charing Cross Road
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) Irish playwright
As quoted in Days with Bernard Shaw (1949) by Stephen Winsten
1940s and later
“I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.”
Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007) American writer
Interview by David Brancaccio, NOW (PBS) (7 October 2005) http://www.pbs.org/now/arts/vonnegut.html <br class="br">Various interviews <br class="br">Context: [When Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man. You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet? And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope. I meet a lot of people. And, see some great looking babes. And a fire engine goes by. And I give them the thumbs up. And, and ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is, is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around. And, we're not supposed to dance at all anymore.
“Buying books is probably my biggest vice”
Katie Melua (1984) British singer-songwriter
Context: Buying books is probably my biggest vice when I travel. I bought a great one in America called An Incomplete Education, which covers everything from fashion to philosophy in quite a humorous way. It’s a bluffer’s guide, but pretty extensive. Because I never went to university, it’s my attempt to bone up on subjects I don’t know much about.