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Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words.

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

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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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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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Do you know why teachers use me? Because I speak in tongues. I write metaphors. Every one of my stories is a metaphor you can remember. The great reli...more

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Libraries raised me.

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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

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Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

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There must be something in books, things we can't imagine.

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Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There's nothing magical in them at all. Magic i...more