Thomas Mann Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

  Thomas Mann

  Book, Giving, Genius

• The books and magazines streamed in. He could buy them all, they piled up around him and even while he read, the number of those still to be read disturbed him. … they stood in rows, weighing down his life like a possession which he did not succeed in subordinating to his personality.

  Thomas Mann

  Book, Numbers, Personality

• (T)here was a story they used to tell at home about a girl whose punishment was that every time she opened her mouth, snakes and toads came out, snakes and toads with every word. The book didn't say what she did about it, but I've always assumed she probably ended up keeping her mouth shut.

  Thomas Mann

  Girl, Book, Home

  Thomas Mann (1995). “The magic mountain: a novel”, Random House, Inc.

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