"It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt..."

-- Ray Bradbury

#Book Quotes #Dust Quotes #Smell Quotes

“Part of living, part of becoming a wise man or a wise woman, is to get to that point where you can have a friend for whom you are genuinely happy when he or she has a success. That's tough. Very few people get to that point. With writers it's next to impossible. You can't really bless a writer who's as good as yourself.”
“I would change policy, bring back natural grass and nickel beer. Baseball is the belly-button of our society. Straighten out baseball, and you straighten out the rest of the world.”
“I don't like no fancy chords. Just the boogie. The drive. The feeling. A lot of people play fancy but they don't have no style. It's a deep feeling-you just can't stop listening to that sad blues sound. My sound.”
“The socialist tradition....goes back to Jesus Christ, not (Karl) Marx.”
“To tell an adult exactly what steps to take towards his salvation was apt to weaken him. It deprived him of his inalienable right to trial and error which was tonic to the character.”
“I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.”
“SABLE- A common knitting acronym that stands for Stash Acquisition Beyond Life Expectancy.”
“The purpose of models is not to fit the data but to sharpen the question.”

Source : 11th R.A. Fisher Memorial Lectures Royal Society 20 April 1983

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