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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ~Salman Rushdie
Won’t you join me in championing free speech this week by observing Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read. Do it anyway you want, I don’t care: Take a book to lunch. Or dress it up in stockings and stilettos–then fuck it silly or jerk off and cum all over it. But most of all, hold it to your heart and keep it safe.
Great Book Quotes
- To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser. ~Robertson Davies
- There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. ~Oscar Wilde
- The man who doesn’t read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them. ~Mark Twain
- A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~Cicero
- Never judge a book by its movie. ~J. W. Eagan
- Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in your library and read every book. ~Dwight Eisenhower
- This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force. ~Dorothy Parker
- I first read books to survive my life; then I read books to live my life; now I read books to celebrate my life. ~Angela St. Lawrence
Most Sacred First Amendment
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble , and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Books from the Hit List
- To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
- The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
- Cujo by Stephen King
- Beloved by Toni Morrison
- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
- Native Son by Richard Wright
- Lord of the Flies by William Golding
- Ordinary People by Judith Guest
- The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood
- Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker
- Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sing by Maya Angelou
***Researching and putting all of the info together for this entry, I’ve had tears in my eyes more than once; fell in love with power of words–over and again; was struck heart-deep by the weight of truth which those who write always bare; and fell in love with my beautiful country all over again. If you even find your way to one of those things…I will be profoundly humbled.
Who would have expected that Ike was so open-minded about the importance of books? But my favorite quotation about the life-effect of books is your own. Thank you, Angela, for reminding us to celebrate — and protect — our reading freedom.
Beautiful.
To Kill a Mockingbird? That’s downright scary-makes you want to cry. Who-in-the-hell was thinking what-in-the-hell with that one?
“Never judge a book by its movie.” Damn funny and also damn true.
Thanks, Miss Angela. Once again, your priorities prove your metal..and your wisdom.
Our English language is a divine gift as are creativity and intellect. Books, the records of this creativity and intellect, are sacred chalices from which we all should regularly drink. In our world of electronic communication and vanishing patience glossed over with Xanax, in which a strong electromagnet could erase the electronic version of literature, I hoist up my tomes and yell “hooray for the printed word!” Thank you Angela.
Hey there,
I had you on my yahoo 360, but never heard from you so I deleted you. I see pervscan recently posted a story you sent them.
Anyway hope to chat sometime.
sorry…i reinvited you…do you still have room on your dance card?
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