"History proves there is no better advertisement for a book than to condemn it for obscenity."

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Source : Holbrook Jackson (1932). “The Fear of Books”, p.34, University of Illinois Press

Holbrook Jackson

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“Youth has no age.”
“We have no eternal allies, and we have not perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.”
“Carlsen will be ridiculously difficult to play against. (on the 2013 World Championship match)”
“I feel that you are justified in looking into the future with true assurance, because you have a mode of living in which we find the joy of life and the joy of work harmoniously combined. Added to this is the spirit of ambition which pervades your very being, and seems to make the day's work like a happy child at play.”
“The First Lady asked me how many people passed through the White House on tours. When I told her thousands did, she said they should sell something to the tourists and use the profits to help redecorate the White House. She decided to make a small book. It cost 42 cents and sold for a dollar. Over the years it has brought in $42 million.”
“It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.”
“I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.”
“Tis the most certain sign, the world's accurst That the best things corrupted, are the worst; 'Twas the corrupted Light of knowledge, hurl'd Sin, Death, and Ignorance o'er all the world; That Sun like this (from which our sight we have) Gaz'd on too long, resumes the light he gave.”

Source : Sir John Denham (1751). “Poems and Translations: With the Sophy, a Tragedy”, p.108

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