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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?)Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you ca...more

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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

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You should've thought of that before becoming a fir

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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

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There must be something in books, things we can't imagine.

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Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There's nothing magical in them at all. Magic i...more

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It was pretty silly quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give man a few lines of verse and he thinks he...more

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Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of...more

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We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing...It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books...more

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If you read fast and read all, maybe some of the sand will stay in the sieve.

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The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just g...more

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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man w...more

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Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

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Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The ma...more