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Dwight Eisenhower’s warning, “Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
Corrupt people fear books because they contain something more powerful than themselves: ideas.
Nelson once told him that certain scenes rewrote themselves in his head after a book was published and nearly drove him insane.
“Writers must write, like painters must paint,” Nelson told him. “But it’s different for writers because until the story is down on paper, it will continue to expand in the writer’s crowded mind, where it can’t ever be contained.”
“We may have amazing technology and clean energy, disease under control, and so-called peace, but our paradise is on the edge of a great precipice. Much as theirs was then.”
“They want certain things forgotten or hidden or never known, and the places where such things are recorded, like books, become dangerous to the corrupt. The ones who want to control what people think. Who feel safe only when everyone sees it all their way.”
“Dear boy, we weren’t even free when we were free, but all we have now is a beautiful lie.”
“Kafka said, ‘All language is but a poor translation.’
Nothing robs a man faster than lies. It’s a dark world, where no one trusts anybody,”
The books were my friends, always there teaching me, making me laugh, and taking me places . . . so many places.”
“What is a life without meaning? A strange and empty walk alone in the cold.” Runit smiled, recognizing the quote from one of his favorite authors, Jean Van Ness. “Do good. Share love. Risk it all for something more than yourself,”
Fahrenheit 451. ‘But you can’t make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them.’
