Germaine Greer on reading

Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

The compelled mother loves her child as the caged bird sings. The song does not justify the cage nor the love the enforcement.

The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Mark Twain1835–1910Quoting or paraphrasing a Professor Winchester in “Disappearance of Literature”, speech at the Nineteenth Century Club, New York, 20 November 1900, in Mark Twain’s Speeches (1910), ed. William Dean Howells, p. 194

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

Mark Twain1835–1910

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Benjamin Franklin1706–1790

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