Ray Bradbury Quotes
Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.
Steinhauer, Jennifer. "A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library." The New York Times, 19 June 2009.
The first three public libraries had been opened in Rome under Augustus. By Constantine’s reign there were 28. Libraries at the time were not only repositories of books and manuscripts but places of social congregation of men—a cross between a men’s club and a modern library. In the great Roman library at Ephesus, an underground tunnel connected with the brothel across the street. When the barbarians invaded, all the libraries closed.
Actually, in the modern English tradition there is no censorship of library materials, but for many countries including some democracies, there is library censorship including some in the United States. However, the Internet has become the most democratic as government censorship is even harder, but still China, Saudi Arabia, and some other countries even censor the Internet.
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Ray Douglas Bradbury was an American author and screenwriter. One of the most celebrated 20th-century American writers, he worked in a variety of modes, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, mystery, and realistic fiction.
