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Look at it this way, child, life is a magic show, or should be if people didn't go to sleep on each other. Always leave folks with a bit of mystery, s...more

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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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Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, ...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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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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It was a pleasure to burn.It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with...more

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There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay f...more

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Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

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I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused the...more

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Better to keep it in the old heads, where no one can see it or suspect it. We are all bits and pieces of history and literature and international law....more

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It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and min...more

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Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean? To me it means texture. This book...more

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The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

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How must it have felt, Pikes, the night they seized your films, like entrails yanked from the camera, out of your guts, clutching them in coils and wa...more

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They began by controlling books of cartoons and then detective books and, of course, films, one way or another, one group or another, political bias, ...more