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Elizabeth McCracken has 20 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.
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Despite popular theories, I believe people fall in love based not on good looks or fate but on knowledge. Either they are…
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For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. It’s what’s cast in bronze, or framed…
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All I can say is, it's a sort of kinship, as though there is a family tree of grief. On this branch,…
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Can I tell you something? It wasn't so bad. Not so bad at all right then, me scowling at the dirt, James…
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Unrequited love–plain desperate aboveboard boy-chasing–turned you into a salesperson, and what you were selling was something he didn't want, couldn't use, would…
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After most deaths, I imagine, the awfulness lies in how everything’s changed….there’s a hole. It’s person-shaped and it follows you everywhere…. For…
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A Lucky Child is an extraordinary story, simply and beautifully told. Heartbreaking and thrilling, it examines what it means to be human,…
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The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and…
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but you can't spend your whole life hoping people will ask you the right questions. you must learn to love and answer…
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truthfully, this is the fabric of all my fantasies: love shown not by a kiss or a wild look or a careful…
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I had never wanted to be one of those girls in love with boys who would not have me. Unrequited love -…
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You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
— Ray Bradbury
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You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your…
— Dhani Harrison
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The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers…
— Ray Bradbury
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Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
— Michael Berryman
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Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.
— James Gleick
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
— Ray Bradbury
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
— Heinrich Heine
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... because real thoughts come from outside and travel with us like the noodle soup we take to work; in other words,…
— Bohumil Hrabal
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Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge,…
— Elizabeth McCracken
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