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Karteikarten von Jacob Mullins, aktualisiert more than 1 year ago
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Erstellt von Jacob Mullins
vor etwa 6 Jahre
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| “There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.” | “If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.” |
| “I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane.” | “The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.” |
| “The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are." | “A book is a loaded gun in the house next door...Who knows who might be the target of the well-read man?” |
| “If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one." | “I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things.” |
| “See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.” | “Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls." |
| "He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back.” | "Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them, at all." |
| “‘Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord.'” | “It was a pleasure to burn.” |
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