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

— Ray Bradbury Misattributed

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However, compare to the similar Bradbury quotes from 1993 (Seattle Times) and 2000 (Peoria Journal) above.

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More quotes by Ray Bradbury

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

The first thing you learn in life is you’re a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you’re the same fool.

Dandelion Wine (1957)

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

Speech at Brown University (1995)

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage.

The Golden Apples of the Sun (1953)

Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers.

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library.

Samuel Johnson The Rambler (1750)

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