The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. β¨ Bradbury Still Believes In Heat Of `Fahrenheit 451' by Misha Berson, community.seattletimes.nwsource.com. March 12, 1993.
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