Do you understand now why books are hated and feared? Because they reveal the pores on the face of life. The comfortable people want only the faces of the full moon, wax, faces without pores, hairless, expressionless.
("Fahrenheit 451")
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Love is the answer to everything. It's the only reason to do anything. If you don't write stories you love, you'll never make it. If you don't write stories that other people love, you'll never make it.Ray Bradbury
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
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The sun burnt every day. It burnt time.
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I'm not anyone, I'm just myself; whatever I am, I am something, and now I'm something you can't help.
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Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else.
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If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like old faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape.
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