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Love of the simple is all that I need, I've no time for schism or lovers of greed. — Van Morrison

I reckon he only ever wanted you to be happy. That's why he was the man for you. — Hugh Howey

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

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

My miracle is what God does when I obey. — Rod Parsley

Pouring out liquor is like burning books. — William Faulkner

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him. — Desiderius Erasmus

If you elect me the first Jewish justice of the peace, I'll reduce the speed limits to 54.95! — Kinky Friedman

There were too many fires to put out. Too many pieces to move across the chessboard. — C.D. Reiss

Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time. Page 212. — Yann Martel

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time. — Joseph Lewis

Tearing your clothes, burning your books and torturing yourself only prove that you are nothing but a wild creature. — M.F. Moonzajer

What's your name?'Leon said, when waht he meant was - may I love you for ever?
And she told him. — Tony Parsons

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do. — Yogi Berra

It is there, where they burn books, that eventually they burn people. — Heinrich Heine

The burning soul, the burden'd mind,
In books alone companions find. — Sarah Josepha Hale

Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings. — Heinrich Heine

Books can be burned," croaked Black.
"They have a way of rising from the ashes," said Andreus. — James Thurber

Air transport is just a glorified bus operation. — Michael O'Leary

People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up. — Ogden Nash

Personally, I am dead against the burning of books. — Augustine Birrell

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. — George William Curtis

Book burnings. Always the forerunners. Heralds of the stake, the ovens, the mass graves. — Geraldine Brooks

Those who begin by burning books will end by burning people. — Heinrich Heine

No," said Dina. "We don't burn books."
"Who's we?"
"People with an ounce of brain. — G. Willow Wilson

There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house. — Ray Bradbury

The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years. — Guy Kawasaki

My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous."
"Men like that always are. — Ray Bradbury

You know what they say: When people start burning books they'll soon burn human beings. — Cornelia Funke

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. — Sigmund Freud

I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way. — Terence McKenna

There are far more a worst crimes than burning books ... Not reading them. — Joseph Brodsky

The burning lamp is found in reading books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I do not know if I am mistaken, but it seems that one can obtain more truths, important to Humanity, from Chemistry than from any other Science. — Samuel Hahnemann

I'm sure the only act that sells more books than a good banning is a good burning. — Pansy Schneider-Horst

Where they burn books, at the end they also burn people — Heinrich Heine

I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast. — Celia Conrad

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs. — Amy Plum

I am Envy ... I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. — Christopher Marlowe

You can't have any successes unless you can accept failure. — George Cukor

I'm all for selling books, but when guys are burning my house down, that's where I draw the line. — Robert Kirkman

Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof! — Mehmet Murat Ildan