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Ahmet Zappa

"I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it."

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Amber Hurdle

"A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat."

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"Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens."

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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."

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"Books can not 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. And it is a part of your dedication always to make them weapons for man's freedom."

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Amber Hurdle

"The Bible is the one book we've most succeeded in having them never read as a book. Keep it that way."

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"A war of ideas can no more be won without books than a naval war can be won without ships. Books, like ships, have the toughest armor, the longest cruising range, and mount the most powerful guns."

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"What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was somewhat of a tour de force, and I think it got across what I was trying for."

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"Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series."

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"Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth."

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"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."

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"I miss my Dad. My Dad loved cheesy monster movies, so we'd have Godzilla movie marathons. Those are some of my favorite memories, laughing at how the monster outfits were so bad, like black garbage bags for heads."
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"I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it."
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