"University printing presses exist, and are subsidised by the Government for the purpose of producing books which no one can read; and they are true to their high calling." - F.M. Cornford (Microcosmographa Academica) - Is this why our university-published books tak laku?
"Wherever they burn books, they will also, in the end, burn human beings." - Heinrich Heine (Almansor)
"Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory...In this war, we know, books are weapons." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas." - Alfred Whitney Griswold
"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us." - Franz Kafka
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say." - Italo Calvino (The Literature Machine)
"Classic - a book people praise and don't read." - Mark Twain (Following The Equator)
"The world must be all f***ed up when men travel first-class and literature goes as freight." Gabriel Garcia Marquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
"The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Conversations with Goethe, by Johann Eckermann)
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