To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while.

Aleister Crowley

More information about this quote

Topic

Newspapers Reading Media criticism

Author

Aleister Crowley

Source

The Spirit of Solitude

Genre

Autobiography and memoir

Language

English

Time

1929 1920s 20th century

Occupation

Occultist

From

United Kingdom Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Crowley, Aleister. The Spirit of Solitude. Mandrake Press, 1929.

Illustrated Quote

A quote by Aleister Crowley about newspapers: “To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while.”
Download
A quote by Aleister Crowley about newspapers: “To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while.”
Download
A quote by Aleister Crowley about newspapers: “To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while.”
Download

Related Quotes

Below are one or more quotes that share at least one tag with the quote at the top of the page

Another quote from the 1920s

There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.

Marcel Proust

In Search of Lost Time

Buy The Fugitive at Amazon Buy The Fugitive at Amazon
More information about this quote
Topic
Learning from suffering

Author

Marcel Proust
Source
The Fugitive In Search of Lost Time
Medium
Novel
Genre
Modernist literature
Language
French
Time
1922 1920s 20th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Proust, Marcel. Albertine disparue [Albertine Gone]. Paris: Gallimard, 1927.

Current Citation

Proust, Marcel. The Fugitive, edited and translated by Peter Collier. Penguin Classics, 2021.