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“The one thing you know about people who ban books is that they don't read books.”

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“The point is obvious. There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist, Unitarian, Irish, Italian, Octogenarian, Zen Buddhist, Zionist, Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib, Republican, Mattachine, Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.”

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Book:Fahrenheit 451

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“Books don’t immediately change lives, but they influence how others perceive you – and that influence can scale over time into reputation, authority, and opportunity.”

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“Like all admirers of fairytales, she'd always loved the scent of books. She loved the paper dust in the air, the way it swirled in the light like little sprinkles of magic.”

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Book:The Ballad of Never After

Source: The Ballad of Never After

“We, I believe, includes Greg's dad, who stands silently next to her, popping three cubes of colby jack into his mouth with the vacant smile of someone who's been dissociated since 1999.”

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Book:Love, Theoretically

Source: Love, Theoretically

“He hadn't written the book, but he was in it. He had literally travelled within its pages, and somehow, those pages reached out for him even now. They reached in some ephemeral way, wound so closely around simple hope that in the next moment he could convince himself that hope was all he had ever been. But no. It was here.”

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Book:The Book That Held Her Heart

Source: The Book That Held Her Heart

“They didn’t lie to save you. They lied to save their image.”

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Book:Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote

Source: Life Simplified: Quote - Unquote

“Books are like food: popcorn is devoured and forgotten, but a steak is savored and digested slowly. Just don’t ruin its taste with popcorn.”

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Author:Reyus Mammadli

“Books are the gateway to civilization.”

Author:Jasin Fayble

“He would cover up the unwelcome truths, ignoring what stubbornly lingered before him. He’d keep doing so until a tempest rose, tearing away that veil with its fierce winds. This storm, poised to drag them all into the depths of darkness, bore the name Joseph Campbell.”

Book:Darkness In The Light #2

Source: Darkness In The Light #2

“Amazon has successfully fostered the idea that a book is a thing of minimal value. It’s a widget.”

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Book:Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America

Source: Fulfillment: Winning and Losing in One-Click America