"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."

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"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."

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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."

Dean Koontz, American Author

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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."

Stephen King, American Author

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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."

Bangambiki Habyarimana, Rwandan Author

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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."

Sue Grafton, American Novelist

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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."

Bruce Jackson, American Public Servant

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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."

Walt Whitman, American Poet

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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important."

Brian P. Cleary, American Author

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"The New is not a fashion, it is a value."

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"What I claim is to live to the full the contradiction of my time, which may well make sarcasm the condition of truth."

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"Language is a skin: I rub my language against the other. It is as if I had words instead of fingers, or fingers at the tip of my words. My language trembles with desire."

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"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."

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"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun."

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"For the theatre one needs long arms; it is better to have them too long than too short. An artiste with short arms can never, never make a fine gesture."

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"I call the discourse of power any discourse that engenders blame, hence guilt, in its recipient."

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"Language is legislation, speech is its code. We do not see the power which is in speech because we forget that all speech is a classification, and that all classifications are oppressive."

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"The skyscraper establishes the block, the block creates the street, the street offers itself to man."

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"Through the mythology of Einstein, the world blissfully regained the image of knowledge reduced to a formula."

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