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All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. but if i have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work i abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. and then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

-Katherine Paterson

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Katherine Paterson

All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. but if i have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work i abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. and then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.

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And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. for an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. it is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.

I abhor unjust war. i abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. i abhor violence and bloodshed. i believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. i respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. i advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and i should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

I am a product of endless books. my father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. there were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...in the seemingly endless rainy afternoons i took volume after volume from the shelves. i had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.

The rest, with very little exaggeration, was books. meant-to-be-picked-up books. permanently-left-behind books. uncertain-what-to-do-with books. but books, books. tall cases lined three walls of the room, filled to and beyond capacity. the overflow had been piled in stacks on the floor. there was little space left for walking, and none whatever for pacing.

If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in america are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. a black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.

All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. remove the vices; and the ills follow. you must only take care to remove all the vices. if you remove part, you may render the matter worse. by banishing vicious luxury, without curing sloth and an indifference to others, you only diminish industry in the state, and add nothing to men's charity or their generosity.

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