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Reading Quotes by Ray Bradbury
- You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
- Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
- I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to…
- When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.
- Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.
- Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and…
- So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the…
- This afternoon, burn down the house. Tomorrow, pour critical water upon the simmering coals. Time enough to think and cut and rewrite tomorrow. But today-explode-f…
- The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us -…
- Orwell was dealing with communism and his disillusionment with communism in Russia and what he saw the communists do in Spain. His novel was a…
- 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…
- In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
- Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another,…
- Garrett," said Stendahl, "do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other…
- ..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
- Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.
- I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm…
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