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“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
― Albert Einstein

“I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx

“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
― Mark Twain

“A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.”
― Paul Klee

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country