Book Burning Quotes
9 quotes by 8 authors
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
— Ray Bradbury
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Book burning is a charming old custom, hallowed by antiquity. It has been practiced for centuries by fascists, communists, atheists, school children, rival authors, and…
— Richard Armour
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Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit…
— Ray Bradbury
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Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... In this war, we…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a…
— Alberto Manguel
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The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if…
— Daniel Handler
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Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves.
— Geraldine Brooks
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I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing…
— Christopher Marlowe
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The Internet has made book burning impossible and redundant at the same time.
— John Alejandro King
Who Wrote These Book Burning Quotes
8 authors contributed a total of 9 Book Burning Quotes as follows: