The Door to December Quotes

“And yet the time saved did not seem to mean additional leisure or greater opportunities for meditation and reflection. Instead, with each new wave of technology, the pace of life increased; there was more to do, more choices to make, more things to experience, and people eagerly seized upon those experiences and filled the hours that had only moments ago become empty.”
― Richard Paige, The Door to December

“The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.’ Mark Twain”
― Richard Paige, The Door to December

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates’ loot on Treasure Island.’ Walt Disney.”
― Richard Paige, The Door to December

“It was both exhilarating and frightening to be alive in these times. Mankind had acquired the ability to reach the stars, to take a giant leap off this world and spread out through the universe, but the species had also acquired the ability to destroy itself before the inevitable emigration could begin. New technology – like the computer – freed men and women from all kinds of drudgery, saved them vast amounts of time. And yet . . . And yet the time saved did not seem to mean additional leisure or greater opportunities for meditation and reflection. Instead, with each new wave of technology, the pace of life increased; there was more to do, more choices to make, more things to experience, and people eagerly seized upon those experiences and filled the hours that had only moments ago become empty.”
― Dean Koontz, The Door to December

“Most potential victims were not yet awake, and even the criminals had to sleep sometime.”
― Richard Paige, The Door to December

“He did not have a particularly ruminative or philosophical bent—or at least he didn’t think of himself in those terms. Perhaps, working day after day in a world of violence and blood and death, it was impossible not to grow philosophical with the passage of years. Maybe most other homicide cops spent a lot of time contemplating the dark side of human potential; maybe he wasn’t the only one; he had no way of knowing; it wasn’t the kind of thing most cops talked about.”
― Richard Paige, The Door to December

“Books are not merely lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.’ Gilbert Highet.”
― Richard Paige, The Door to December

“To program their psychological matrices to include promiscuity and masochism.”
― Richard Paige, The Door to December

“New technology – like the computer – freed men and women from all kinds of drudgery, saved them vast amounts of time. And yet . . . And yet the time saved did not seem to mean additional leisure or greater opportunities for meditation and reflection. Instead, with each new wave of technology, the pace of life increased; there was more to do, more choices to make, more things to experience, and people eagerly seized upon those experiences and filled the hours that had only moments ago become empty.”
― Richard Paige, The Door to December

“are not merely lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.’ Gilbert Highet.”
― Richard Paige, The Door to December