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There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

Source: At press conference, Washington, D.C., on acceptance of U.S. poet laureateship. Quoted in: Independent on Sunday (London, 19 May 1991).
-- Joseph Brodsky, (May 24 1940-1996), Russian-US poet; He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1987 for his important lyric and elegiac poems; first foreign-born US poet laureate, 1991.

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