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To reject the word is to reject the human search.

Writing a book is not a crime.

The imprisoning of a writer is the same as the burning of a book.

Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.

What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

Bad literature is a form of treason.