"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

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"Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand."

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"The Librarians control the information... They control what gets read, what gets seen, and what gets learned. Because of that they have power."

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"Money, Gun and Lie can solve almost all the problems."

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"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."

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