"A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance,
particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has
been flooded."
“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody
will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late
reading them.”
“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
“It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting.”
" Well-read people are less likely to be evil."
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many
people are chasing you, what you don't read is often as important as
what you do read.”
“For some stories, it's easy. The moral of 'The Three Bears,' for
instance, is "Never break into someone else's house.' The moral of
'Snow White' is 'Never eat apples.' The moral of World War I is 'Never
assassinate Archduke Ferdinand.”
“The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is
nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the
book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and
binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the
pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work.
When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all
of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into
its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author .
. .”
“They're book addicts.”
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