A Quote by Franz Kafka

Books are a narcotic.

Franz Kafka

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Franz Kafka
German - Novelist
July 3, 1883 - June 3, 1924

I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

Chuck Palahniuk

Narcotic greens narcotic greens like reeling firmaments disclose in their appearing randomness the sweetest means that you or she or any wandering Thales might choose to be wonder-struck with at the moment when we die

Marianne Bluger

Storytelling has a narcotic power.

Robert Harris

There's no narcotic like exhaustion.

Octavia Butler

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Charlie Chaplin

Only idiots or snobs ever really thought less of 'genre books' of course. There are stupid books and there are smart books. There are well-written books and badly written books. There are fun books and boring books. All of these distinctions are vastly more important than the distinction between the literary and the non-literary.

Stephen Marche

Begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.

Rolf Potts

The most powerful narcotic in the world is the promise of belonging.

Kalle Lasn

The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic.

Sigmund Freud

Pride is a powerful narcotic, but it doesn't do much for the auto-immune system.

Stuart Stevens

The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.