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To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

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A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -- you c...more

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INTERVIEWERYou’re self-educated, aren’t you?BRADBURYYes, I am. I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library...more

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Libraries raised me.

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I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put ...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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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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But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us ...more

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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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Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three...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