I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.

Octavia E. Butler

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If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!

John Waters

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For books are more than books, they are the life
The very heart and core of ages past,
The reason why men lived and worked and died,
The essence and quintessence of their lives.

Amy Lowell

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Books are a narcotic.

Franz Kafka

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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear.

Judy Blume

Tags: books freedom philosophy communication censor



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Only bad books have good endings.
If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.

Pseudonymous Bosch

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Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

Henry James

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Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

Neil Gaiman

Tags: inspirational books dragons fairy-tales paraphrasing-g-k-chesterton



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If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job.

John Berry

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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Joseph Brodsky

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