Quote #54

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

More from Ray Bradbury

  1. Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
  2. You feed yourself. Make sure you have all the information, whether it's aesthetic, scientific, mathematical, I don't care what it is. Then …
  3. When people ask me where I get my imagination, I simply lament, 'God, here and there, makes madness a calling.'
  4. You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
  5. We are an impossibility in an impossible universe
  6. You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you.
  7. Touch a scientist and you touch a child.
  8. There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

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