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I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked,
“Every dictator gets rid of the artist first... They burn the books and execute the artist first... Art might do something. It's dangerous.”
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“I have nothing to say, and I am saying it, and that is poetry.”
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“I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.”
― John Cage”
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― John Cage”
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“If you start reading a book and you don't like it you always have the option of shutting it. At this point it loses its capacity to offend you.”
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“THE BURNING OF THE BOOKS
When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge
Should be publicly burned and on all sides
Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books
To the bonfires, a banished
Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the
Burned, was shocked to find that his
Books had been passed over. He rushed to his desk
On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power.
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me! Haven't my books
Always reported the truth? And here you are
Treating me like a liar! I command you:
Burn me!”
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When the Regime commanded that books with harmful knowledge
Should be publicly burned and on all sides
Oxen were forced to drag cartloads of books
To the bonfires, a banished
Writer, one of the best, scanning the list of the
Burned, was shocked to find that his
Books had been passed over. He rushed to his desk
On wings of wrath, and wrote a letter to those in power.
Burn me! he wrote with flying pen, burn me! Haven't my books
Always reported the truth? And here you are
Treating me like a liar! I command you:
Burn me!”
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Robert’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Robert’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
1,067 books
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2,095 friends
2,520 books
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4,530 friends
191 books
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98 friends
1,629 books
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167 friends
3,828 books
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137 friends
671 books
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165 friends
1,032 books
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444 friends
531 books
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408 friends
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