Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an organization that was traditionally design-oriented, and I felt I needed a tool to help me gain the trust and support of my colleagues.
This is the harsh truth about us: not only do Filipinos ignore books, literature - we do not understand how important the arts are - not just to those of us who work at it, but to the nation as a whole.
Nicky Santoro: That black book's a joke. It's only got two names in it for the whole country. And one of them's still Al Capone.
Roberto: [looking through his book of English phrases] If looks could kill, I am a-dead now.
Will: Do you buy all these books retail or do you send away for, like, a shrink kit that comes with all these volumes included?
Ron Weasley: [about the Half-Blood Prince's book] He even sleeps with it. Harry Potter: I don't sleep with it!
Vanessa Bell: Your aunt is a very lucky woman Angelica. She has two lives. The life she is living, and the book she is writing.
Hermione: [putting a large book on the table] I checked this out weeks ago for a bit of light reading. Ron: This is light?
Bilbo: I've thought of an ending for my book - "And he lived happily ever after... to the end of his days."
[last lines] Narrator: He smelled like licorice and old books, she thought to herself, as tears rolled from her eyes, the color of muddy puddles.
Isaac Davis: [after reading his ex-wife's book about their relationship] [to his ex-wife] Isaac Davis: I came here to strangle you!
Sheriff John T. 'Buster' McCain: [Reading from one of the Misery books] There is a judge higher than that of man, I will be judged by Him.
Joe: Give me that book. Mr. White: Are you gonna put it away? Joe: I'm gonna do whatever the fuck I want with it.
Frank: Hey Karl, what are you carryin' around them books for? Karl: I ain't got no place to set 'em down.
Ann Newton: I never make up anything. I get everything from my books. They're all true.
Danny Torrance: Tony, I'm scared. [as Tony] Danny Torrance: Remember what Mr. Hallorann said. It's just like pictures in a book, Danny. It isn't real.
Rachel Lapp: Are you enjoying your reading? John Book: Oh yeah. I'm learning a lot about manure. Very interesting.
Daniel Hochleitner: Your hole, it is better now? John Book: Yeah, it's pretty much healed. Daniel Hochleitner: Good. Then you can go home.
Rachel Lapp: We're all very happy that you're going to live, John Book. We didn't know what we would do with you if you'd died.
So many people are working in vaudeville today that I looked for three weeks to book enough acts for an hour bill and didn't have them until the night before we opened in Buffalo and money was no object!
