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This novel is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force. - Dorothy Parker
Did you ever hear anyone say, “That work had better be banned because I might read it and it might be very damaging to me?” - Joseph Henry Jackson
Whenever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings. - Heinrich Heine
Goldilocks is about property rights. Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of seduction, rape, murder, and cannibalism. - Bernard J Hibbits
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. - Oscar Wilde
The world must be all fucked up, when men travel first class and literature goes as freight. - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. - Mark Twain
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - Mark Twain
Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn. - Joseph Addison
In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you. - Mortimer J Adler