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Get Your Rocks Off With a Banned Book A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return. ~Salman RushdieWon'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.
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