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You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don't. Th...more

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I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and in high school in ...more

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I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old bo...more

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You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

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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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There were differences between memories and dreams. He had only dreams of things he had wanted to do, while Lespere had memories of things done and ac...more

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I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it...more

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Libraries raised me.

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

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Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

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

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Let the war turn off the families. Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge.

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Don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heade...more

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The important thing for you to remember, Montag, is we're the Happiness Boys, the Dixie Duo, you and I and the others. We stand against the small tide...more

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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