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“Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.”
― Aneurin Bevan

“The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.”
― Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”
― Ray Bradbury

“...Despite the mayhem that followed, Bruno found that he was still holding Shmuel's hand in his own and nothing in the world would have persuaded him to let go.”
― John Boyne , The Boy in the Striped Pajamas