"It is easiser, perhaps, to do good deeds than tell good stories." ~~ Samuel Joseph Agnon
"Books are pouches of wisdom embroidered with pearly words." ~~ Moshe Ben Ezra
"Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read." ~~ Groucho Marx
"What is written lasts for ever." ~~ Isaac Abravanel
"Life is God’s novel so let him write it." ~~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special. " ~~ Fran Lebowitz
"If you are a man of the sword, you can’t claim to be a man of the book; and if you are a man of the book, you will not be a man of the sword." ~~ Talmud, Avodah Zarah 17b
"Even the best translation cannot render fully the exact meaning of the text." ~~ Moshe Mendelssohn
"If you change the language, you change the content." ~~ Samuel Joseph Agnon
"A people’s only national literature is the one written in its national language." ~~ Achad Ha’am
"Three possessions should you prize: a field, a friend, and a book." ~~ Hai Gaon
"Many pens are broken, and seas of ink consumed, to descibe things that never happened." ~~ Midrash Tanchuma
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