Compressed Read

Famous quotes containing the words compressed and/or read:

“The human mind is so complex and things are so tangled up with each other that, to explain a blade of straw, one would have to take to pieces an entire universe.... A definition is a sack of flour compressed into a thimble.”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)

“I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)