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Letter "B" » Books
«Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.»
Author: Alfred Whitney Griswold
(Educator)
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Books,
Ideas
| Keywords:
ban, banned, censor, censored, censors, history of ideas, inquisitor, in the long run, jail, jailed, long run, The Inquisitor, The Long, The Long Run, weapon
«Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence»
«Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.»
Author: Jeanette Winterson
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
absurdity, addiction, bank, bank account, bastard, cabinet, cabinets, collecting, cousin, fascination, fascinations, hobbies, obsession, occupation, of sound mind, sister, stamp, trophies, trophy
«Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.»
«Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.»
Author: Lawrence Clark Powell
(Critic, Librarian, Writer)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
Come and Go, spokesman, spokesmen
«Borrowers of books, those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
Borrowers, collections, creators, shelves, spoiler, spoilers, symmetry, The Spoiler
«Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all»
«Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.»
Author: Arthur Schopenhauer
(Philosopher)
| About:
Books
| Keywords:
appropriation, appropriations, buying, contents, mistaken, purchase, rule book, The Purchase
«Books that cannot bear examination, certainly ought not to be established as divine inspiration by penal laws»
«Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.»
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