You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
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Ray BradburyAs quoted in The Seattle Times (March 12, 1993)
About Ray Bradbury
American author of Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. (1920-2012)
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- Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.Brown Daily Herald (March 24, 1995)
- Stuff your eyes with wonder.Fahrenheit 451 (1953)
- We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.Zen in the Art of Writing (1990)
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- Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.Leonardo da Vinci
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- Who is wise? He that learns from every one. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content.Benjamin Franklin
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