Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.
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"Bookworms"Augustine Birrell
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Them that begin by burning books, end by burning men.
Heinrich Heine
The current publishing scene is extremely good for the big, popular books. They sell them brilliantly, market them and all that. It is not good for the little books. And really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. In the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. Because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation. It's heart-breaking how often I have to say when I'm giving talks, "This book is out of print. This book is out of print." It's a roll call of dead books.
Doris Lessing
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Ray Bradbury
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Joseph Brodsky
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud
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