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)