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This is the FU Ron DeSantis Thread. Let's See Your Favorite Quotes From or About Books

Loulit01 said:
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. — Kurt Vonnegut

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. — Erasmus

"The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night." — Isabel Allende

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." – Margaret Fuller

"A word after a word after a word is power." – Margaret Atwood

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." – Carl Sagan

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world." – Napoleon Bonaparte

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."— Neil Gaiman

"Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you." – Haruki Murakami

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book." — Jane Smiley

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." — Groucho Marx

If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't sleep with them. — Jon Waters
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Great thread........even if politics are involved.

I was a "going no wheres" 10th grade dropout who some high school literature teacher kept tabs on. Dunno why. He was a single late 50's loner who sat at the same booth at my hometown diner every night for supper and made me come sit with him for a few minutes every time he saw me in the place.

He changed my entire life by challenging me to read.
 
Bok_Tukalo said:
"I don't care what anyone says; Catcher in the Rye sucks."

~ Bok Tuklo
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In high school we were forced to read something called "A Separate Peace". A story about a weird kid in a New England finishing school during World War Two.

This was 1964 or so. It was stupid, insipid, boring and totally without relevance to an age involving race riots, peace riots, an illegal war and a guy called Goldwater who promised to nuke Vietnam. I finished it and got a D+. The teacher said "you could have done better".

"I could have, maybe, but I was into this other book....it's a weird thing called "Catch 22". He hadn't heard of it and thought I'd referenced "Catcher in the Rye"

""And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways", Yossarian continued, hurtling over her objections. "There's nothing so mysterious about it. He's not working at all. He's playing or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about—a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation?"

I've probably read over a million books just not the shit they throw at you in school.
 
RetiredUSN said:
Great thread........even if politics are involved.

I was a "going no wheres" 10th grade dropout who some high school literature teacher kept tabs on. Dunno why. He was a single late 50's loner who sat at the same booth at my hometown diner every night for supper and made me come sit with him for a few minutes every time he saw me in the place.

He changed my entire life by challenging me to read.
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Amen, brother.
 
Fearandloathing said:
In high school we were forced to read something called "A Separate Peace". A story about a weird kid in a New England finishing school during World War Two.

This was 1964 or so. It was stupid, insipid, boring and totally without relevance to an age involving race riots, peace riots, an illegal war and a guy called Goldwater who promised to nuke Vietnam. I finished it and got a D+. The teacher said "you could have done better".

"I could have, maybe, but I was into this other book....it's a weird thing called "Catch 22". He hadn't heard of it and thought I'd referenced "Catcher in the Rye"

""And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways", Yossarian continued, hurtling over her objections. "There's nothing so mysterious about it. He's not working at all. He's playing or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about—a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation?"

I've probably read over a million books just not the shit they throw at you in school.
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First day of freshman year was a gorgeous fall day. Me, the book nut, walked into honors English all excited and got handed Ethan Fromm. It's like they were trying to kill the joy of reading. Don't get me wrong, today I understand it's a great book. But not for the first day of high school. Talk about depressing.

Plus I was busy reading Stranger in a Strange Land.
 
Loulit01 said:
The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries. — Kurt Vonnegut

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free." – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read.” – Groucho Marx

When I have a little money, I buy books; and if I have any left, I buy food and clothes. — Erasmus

"The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night." — Isabel Allende

"Today a reader, tomorrow a leader." – Margaret Fuller

"A word after a word after a word is power." – Margaret Atwood

"One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time." – Carl Sagan

"Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world." – Napoleon Bonaparte

"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."— Neil Gaiman

"Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you." – Haruki Murakami

"That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong." – F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book." — Jane Smiley

"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." — Groucho Marx

If you go home with someone and they don't have books, don't sleep with them. — Jon Waters
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Thanks very much, a oasis in the pool of dirty water here.
 
Fearandloathing said:
In high school we were forced to read something called "A Separate Peace". A story about a weird kid in a New England finishing school during World War Two.

This was 1964 or so. It was stupid, insipid, boring and totally without relevance to an age involving race riots, peace riots, an illegal war and a guy called Goldwater who promised to nuke Vietnam. I finished it and got a D+. The teacher said "you could have done better".

"I could have, maybe, but I was into this other book....it's a weird thing called "Catch 22". He hadn't heard of it and thought I'd referenced "Catcher in the Rye"

""And don't tell me God works in mysterious ways", Yossarian continued, hurtling over her objections. "There's nothing so mysterious about it. He's not working at all. He's playing or else He's forgotten all about us. That's the kind of God you people talk about—a country bumpkin, a clumsy, bungling, brainless, conceited, uncouth hayseed. Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth decay in His divine system of creation?"

I've probably read over a million books just not the shit they throw at you in school.
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One of my favorite novels. I need to give it another read this year.

Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window, and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.
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VanceMack said:
Read books. Just stop trying to expose children to leftist porn and normalize pedo-grooming and you wouldnt have a thing to worry about.

And for the record...I dont think that the Florida considerations have anything to do with the books parents want to provide for their own children. Do they?
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This happens mostly in the imaginations of neo-conservatives. They specialize in banning books from school libraries that have never been in the libraries of those schools.

And that law is so broadly written it encompasses any book anybody doesn't like for any reason.

Out of curiosity, how many brown shirts do you own?
 
Loulit01 said:
This happens mostly in the imaginations of neo-conservatives. They specialize in banning books from school libraries that have never been in the libraries of those schools.

And that law is so broadly written it encompasses any book anybody doesn't like for any reason.

Out of curiosity, how many brown shirts do you own?
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Hundreds of examples of this.

"Nazi"

:ROFLMAO:
 
Loulit01 said:
This happens mostly in the imaginations of neo-conservatives. They specialize in banning books from school libraries that have never been in the libraries of those schools.

And that law is so broadly written it encompasses any book anybody doesn't like for any reason.

Out of curiosity, how many brown shirts do you own?
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Loulit01 said:
First day of freshman year was a gorgeous fall day. Me, the book nut, walked into honors English all excited and got handed Ethan Fromm. It's like they were trying to kill the joy of reading. Don't get me wrong, today I understand it's a great book. But not for the first day of high school. Talk about depressing.

Plus I was busy reading Stranger in a Strange Land.
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That confirms my theory that teachers and the profession don't understand learning. They continue to think we all learn the same way.

I failed grade 10 English and dropped out. Five years later I was working in radio, writing and reading the news.

The story is sweet. A neighbor who used to take me hunting with him told me about vocabulary, and that having a good one adds 30 to 60 % on test scores, being able to understand the question. IQ is a language proficiency test, not a knowledge test.

He gave me an exercise book based on word meanings. I loved it because it was progressive, the words got harder and harder.

Soon I was doing the crosswords in teen magazines.

Now I do the New York Times Sunday Magazine puzzle, taking a week to try to complete. It must mean something because the price just jacked to $12
 
Desantis sure does have the libs pantys all in a twist. The world thought TDS was widespread but DDS is also Yuge!!!
I’ll have to pay more attention
 
VanceMack said:
I see the leftist TDS set is already getting their DDS groove on.

Ive always said it...the TDS bullshit was never about Trump.
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And a crap post from a malignant narcissist scumbag piece of shit liar grifter and seditionist apologist. How nice.
 
The pronoun police are pissed about censorship 🤣

You can't make this shit up 🤣

🤣 I'm laughing so hard my side hurts 🤣
 
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