Bad Book

Famous quotes containing the words bad book, bad and/or book:

“Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.”
—Günther Grass (b.1927)

“Any translation which intends to perform a transmitting function cannot transmit anything but information—hence, something inessential. This is the hallmark of bad translations.”
—Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

“The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.”
—Francis Lockier (1668–1740)