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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not read

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. – Joseph Brodsky

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Poetry is rather an approach to things, to life, than it is typographical production. – Joseph Brodsky

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Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. – Richard Steele, Tatler, 1710

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When politicians and politically minded people pay too much attention to literature, it is a bad sign — a bad sign mostly for literature. But it is also a bad sign when they dont want to hear the word mentioned. – Italo Calvino

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Books

The truest owner of a library is he who has bought each book for the love he bears to it; who is happy and content to say, “Here are my jewels, my choicest possessions!” – Frank Carr

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If you have never said “Excuse me” to a parking meter or bashed your shins on a fireplug, you are probably wasting too much valuable reading time. – Sherri Chasin Calvo

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Since the governments are in the pockets of businesses, whos going to control this most powerful institution? Business is more powerful than politics, and its more powerful than religion. So its going to have to be the vigilante consumer. – Anita Roddick

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Never run into debt, not if you can find anything else to run into. – Josh Billings

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If youre a sports fan you realize that when you meet somebody, like a girlfriend, they kind of have to root for your team. They dont have a choice. – Jimmy Fallon

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