„Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive, and very limited way.“

— Flannery O’Connor

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„The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.“
— Noam Chomsky
„Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.“
— Dr. Seuss
„Life is too short to read a bad book.“
— James Joyce