“You can never, never have too many books”
“A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition”
Page 87.
An Apology of Poetry, or The Defence of Poesy (1595)
“Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.”
Variant: Most good things have already been said far too many times and just need to be lived.
"Pirx's Tale" in More Tales of Pirx The Pilot (1983)
Context: Oh, I read good books, too, but only Earthside. Why that is, I don't really know. Never stopped to analyze it. Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. When they talk about outer space, they make you feel the silence, so unlike the Earthly kind — and the lifelessness. Whatever the adventures, the message is always the same: humans will never feel at home out there.
The Golden Speech (1601)
[Eric Shipton, w:Eric Shipton, Illustrations by Biro, That Untravelled World, 1969, 2nd edition, 1977, Hodder and Stoughton, London, 0-340-21609-3]
"Ray Bradbury hates big government: ‘Our country is in need of a revolution’" in The Los Angeles Times : Hero Complex (16 August 2010) http://herocomplex.latimes.com/2010/08/16/ray-bradbury-is-sick-of-big-government-our-country-is-in-need-of-a-revolution/
“I have never been able to resist a book about books.”
Source: Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader
“One Book is enough, but a thousand books is not too many!”
