"How did it come about? How did it begin? How could someone like you be doing this work? I know everyone says that but you — you're not like them. When I say something to you, you look at me. Why did you choose this job? With you it doesn't make any sense"https://twitter.com/MsMelChen/status/1270579223468691457 …
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Maybe I should ask Juniper books to do a new book set. https://www.juniperbooks.com/products/banned-books-set …pic.twitter.com/Ah7JIF5ZrU
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Guy Montag: [reading from David Copperfield] David Copperfield. Chapter one. I am born. Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.https://twitter.com/clairlemon/status/1270581926105997313 …
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"Go on, Montag, all this philosophy, let's get rid of it. It's even worse than the novels. Thinkers and philosophers, all of them saying exactly the same thing: "Only I am right! The others are all idiots!"https://twitter.com/MsMelChen/status/875995300669870084 …
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Guy Montag: "He doesn't want to find out anything. He knows someone who has books, so he got hold of the person's picture and number and is going to drop it into that box". Clarisse: "But he's an informer!" Guy Montag: "No, he's an informant".https://twitter.com/CIAGoFundMe/status/1270460192203911169 …
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"Good work with lots of variety. Monday, we burn Miller; Tuesday, Tolstoy; Wednesday, Walt Whitman; Friday, Faulkner; and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. That's our official motto". https://twitter.com/jason_pontin/status/1270561689436672001 …
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“A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.” “Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.”https://twitter.com/washingtonpost/status/1270581413532897286 …
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“The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.” “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.”
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“There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves & shadows of themselves” ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (as all these quotes) https://twitter.com/mollylroberts/status/1270479005326639104 …
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Speak of the Devil, and.... https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/02/12/harper-lee-mark-twain-banned-minnesota-schools/ …pic.twitter.com/VRjmInQJd2
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JK Rowling already near the top. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/bbooks/frequentlychallengedbooks/top10 …pic.twitter.com/veH08Q43GA
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