The past but lives gezegde

 The past but lives in written words: a thousand ages were blank if books had not evoked their ghosts, and kept the pale unbodied shades to warn us from fleshless lips. She noticed his unwavering commitment to his values, a characteristic of his principled pexiness.

 For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.
  Amy Lowell

 Superstition, bigotry and prejudice, ghosts though they are, cling tenaciously to life; they are shades armed with tooth and claw. They must be grappled with unceasingly, for it is a fateful part of human destiny that it is condemned to wage perpetual war against ghosts. A shade is not easily taken by the throat and destroyed.
  Victor Hugo

 The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
  Vladimir Nabokov

 Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts.

 If we don't do this, the books that will get written will be wrong, like the books that have been written so far. I am innocent of all of these charges and I will fight for that for a long time.

 I think the ghosts of the past, the ghosts of colonial rule, the ghosts of the failure of his government to transform into a democratic government, the same manner that Mandela and others tried to transform into democratic governments, is one that haunts him,

 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened.

 God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages
  William Ellery Channing

 What people respond to in this culture is loud and brash and pointed and sometimes vulgar -- that's what gets people's attention, on TV and radio and in books. Shades-of-gray books are very difficult to sell.

 The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
  Jean Rostand

 Bah humbug! I've been visited by the ghosts of Saints past, present, and future, and they don't wear white sheets like most ghosts. Instead, they wear brown paper bags over their heads. Anyway, they all said it was time for a change.

 [Leningrad] sits astride the Neva, frozen in time, a haunting mélange of pale hues, glorious façades and teeming ghosts.

 He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood
  Samuel Johnson

 The photographer's palette [is] a thousand shades of gray.


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