Quote by Joseph Brodsky
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

Other quotes by Joseph Brodsky

It would be enough for me to have the system of a jury of twelve versus the system of one judge as a basis for preferring the U.S. to the Soviet Union. I would prefer the country you can leave to the country you cannot. – Joseph Brodsky

Category:
Exile
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What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness. – Joseph Brodsky

Category:
Beauty
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Other Quotes from
Books
category

Book lovers never go to bed alone. – Author unknown

Category:
Books

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. – Franz Kafka

Category:
Books

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution — such call I good books. – Henry David Thoreau

Category:
Books

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement. – Holbrook Jackson

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Books

Random Quotes

Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing. – Proverb

Category:
Enemy, Enemies

Im shopping around for something to do that no one will like. – Jerry Garcia

Category:
Recognition

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong. – Mother Jones

Category:
Fight, Fighting

To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve. – James Allen

Category:
Desires