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Without the library, you have no civilization.

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To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

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I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and in high school in ...more

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I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old bo...more

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You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. Th...more

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -- you c...more

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It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...

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I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it...more

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INTERVIEWERYou’re self-educated, aren’t you?BRADBURYYes, I am. I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library...more

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I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put ...more

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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

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(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?)Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you ca...more

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

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You should've thought of that before becoming a fir