1. “The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
2. “‘Why is it,’ he said, one time, at the subway entrance, ‘I feel I’ve known you so many years?’ ‘Because I like you,’ she said, ‘and I don’t want anything from you.’” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
3. “I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.” ― Emily Dickinson
4. “Even with censorship, the Internet is a force for change.” ― Peter Singer
5. “Let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons.” ― Malala Yousafzai
6. “A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.” ― Henry Miller
7. “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door…Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?”― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
8. “Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.” ― Clare Boothe Luce
9. “To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes, all that.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
10. “‘The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.’” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
11. “‘That’s the good part of dying; when you’ve nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.’” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
12. “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
13. “‘We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?’” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
14. “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you’ll never learn.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
15. “One must always be careful of books,” said Tessa, “and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” ― Cassandra Clare
16. “The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.” ― George Bernard Shaw
17. “One should never underestimate the power of books.” ― Paul Auster
18. “I’m tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.” ― Phil Plait
19. “We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
20. “‘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 under then. It can’t last.’” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
21. “The only thing that is obscene is censorship.” ― Craig Bruce
22. “Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one’s hand.” ― Ezra Pound
23. “There are some works so luminous…so powerful that they give us strength, and force us to new undertakings. A book can play this role.” ― Hervé Le Tellier
24. “I’ll hold onto the world tight some day. I’ve got one finger on it now; that’s a beginning.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
25. “‘Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.’” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
26. “It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
27. “‘A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.’” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
28. “I don’t talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
29. “Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
30. “Books must be treated with respect, we feel that in our bones, because words have power. Bring enough words together they can bend space and time.” ― Terry Pratchett
31. “‘Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.’” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
32. “There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.” ― Steven Spielberg
33. “Let us never underestimate the power of a well-written letter.” ― Jane Austen
34. “Don’t ask for guarantees. And don’t look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
35. “‘There must be something in books, things we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.’” – Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
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