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Here I am referring to the types of books that thirtyish women devour at private swim clubs, often to the dismay of their drowning children.
— Joe Queenan
He used books the same way he used alcohol: to pretend that he was not here, and if he was here, that he was happy for a change.
— Joe Queenan
Judges are but men, and are swayed like other men by vehement prejudices. This is corruption in reality, give it whatever other name you please.
— David Dudley Field II
The story in that book of yours comes down to a sudden slipup caused by two great vices: women and laziness.
— Kamel Daoud
True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.
— Mahatma Gandhi
People who prefer e-books ... think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel.
— Joe Queenan
I have never squandered an opportunity to read.
— Joe Queenan
Good books to not invite unanimity. They invite discord, mayhem, knife fights, blood feuds.
— Joe Queenan
While traveling in this highly idiosyncratic country, it became clear to me that the Scots did not like the English.
— Joe Queenan
Books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.
— Joe Queenan
It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican.
— Joe Queenan
Children are not born with their hearts hardened in this fashion, not even Irish-Catholic children. They have to be taught by professionals.
— Joe Queenan
The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.
— Joe Queenan
When a person makes a decision, people will always want a reason they understand, so they'll put a negative spin on things.
— Desiree Rogers
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
— Joe Queenan
If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.
— Joe Queenan
Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.
— Joe Queenan
Actions transform a dream into reality - not hope.
— Debasish Mridha
Unless paid, I never read books by or about businessmen or politicians, nor should anyone else.
— Joe Queenan
The Queen watched the drops of sweat pearling her husband's brow. And nothing disgusts a woman more than the sweat of the man she has ceased to love.
— Maurice Druon
What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.
— Havelock Ellis
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.
— Joe Queenan
There is scarcely any fault in another which offends us more than vanity, though perhaps there is none that really injures us so little.
— Hannah More
Books are a way of saying: This room seems to have more than its fair share of bozos in it.
— Joe Queenan