“What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years.
Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time.
A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.”
[Cosmos, Part 11: The Persistence of Memory (1980)]”
That’s a good one, I have always liked:
Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?
–Henry Ward Beecher
I miss Carl.
You and me both : (
Amazing quote from an amazing man. I also miss him. 🙁
Amazing quote about how ‘books’ changed humanity years ago and ‘binds’ us together with the magic and power of words. Thanks for sharing.
That is an all-time excellent quote! Great post!!
Thanks my dear! Oh, I tried reblogging our interview but found no WP button there.
Hey you! So sweet of you to try reblogging. I believe this is one of the wonderful plugins that a self-hosted site does not offer. (I’ll investigate further and let you know.) Have you heard of PressThis?
No, but Ill try and find out : )
I think I remember seeing it in the Dashboard of my wp.COM from back in my .COM days… I’m researching this now–it makes life for us Self-hosties very lonely! 🙂
I wish Carl Sagan was still alive too. I just finished watching Cosmos all over again.
It’s a really great series
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I remember the first time I read this quote a couple of years ago, I got all teary eyed and hugged the nearest book by my bed <3 :')