meaningless quotes

It wasn't exactly carelessness; her knowledge of literate English contained such vast areas of desert that she took it for granted that half of what she wrote would be meaningless to her.

- Raymond Chandler
  On the shortcomings of his ex-secretary. Letter to Erle Stanley Gardner,1  Jul.

But reading is not idleness†it is the passive, receptive side of civilization without which the active and creative world would be meaningless. It is the immortal spirit of the dead realised within the bodies of the living. It is sacramental.

- Sir Stephen Harold Spender
  Journal entry, 4 Jan.