We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against. So! A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.

Ray Bradbury

Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012) was the internationally acclaimed author of "Fahrenheit 451", his masterpiece set in a bleak, distopian future where books are the most illegal of commodities. He wrote "The Martian Chronicles", a classic science fiction novel, and hundreds of short stories, theater plays and TV & cinema screenplays.

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