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"The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express reality there if you wish. You are also free to write lies, or nonsense, or to tear the pages."
"I read a book one day and my whole life was changed."
"I'm working on a nonfiction book on Nepal and a novel about diasporas."
"Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone."
"Books ARE a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are reflection. Books change your mind."
"Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men."
"Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand."
"Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West."
"Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you"
"Pouring out liquor is like burning books."
"I once stole a pornographic book that was printed in braille. I used to rub the dirty parts."
"If the book be false in its facts, disprove them; if false in its reasoning, refute it. But, for God's sake, let us freely hear both sides, if we choose."
"I don't think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life. And somehow I feel that these comic book stories are like fairy tales for older people, because they have the same qualities."
"Book readers are special people, and they will always turn to books as the ultimate pleasure. Those who do not read are the unfortunate ones. There's nothing wrong with them; but they are missing out on one of life's compensations and rewards. A great book is a friend that never lets you down. You can return to it again and again and the joy first derived from it will still be there."
"One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted."
"People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations."
"Books are the training weights of the mind."
"Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book."
"There is no scent so pleasant to my nostrils as that faint, subtle reek which comes from an ancient book."
"The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected."
