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

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












You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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"No, no, it's not the books you are looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, in old motion pictures, and in old friends; ...