Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Banned books

The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading.
Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news.
The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. …
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

    Ray Bradbury, Bradbury Still Believes in Heat of ‘Fahrenheit 451’ Seattle Times interview

 

 

 

 

 

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