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Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
Japanese 76 x 51 cm
Art by Shunji Sakai

"Well, it's a job just like any other. Good work with lots of variety. Monday, we burn Miller; Tuesday, Tolstoy; Wednesday, Walt Whitman; Friday, Faulkner; and Saturday and Sunday, Schopenhauer and Sartre. We burn them to ashes and then burn the ashes. That's our official motto."

Together with "The Brave New World" by Huxley and Orwell's "1984", Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" is one of my favourite distopian books... Truffaut's version of the book is very nice also, here portrayed by its japanese poster. Unfortunately, a remake is already on the way for 2009, and apparently Montag is going to be played by no other than Tom Hanks himself... Not very good news, at least for the fans of the first film (a low quality remake also has an impact on the original... well, maybe a little), and of fans of cinema in general.

It's one of the greatest stories about censorship... In the future, reading has been forbidden, and every book is burned... After all, that's what the firemen were for! (and yes, Equilibrium was a spinoff of this movie)

"There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. "
-- Joseph Alexandrovitch Brodsky, 1991, Russian-American poet, b. St. Petersburg and exiled 1972 (1940-1996)

"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech at Dartmouth College, June 14, 1953

"To prohibit the reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."
-- Claude Adrien Helvetius, De l'Homme, Vol. I, sec. 4

"And yet on the other hand unless warinesse be us'd, as good almost kill a Man as kill a good Book; who kills a Man kills a reasonable creature, Gods Image, but hee who destroyes a good Booke, kills reason it selfe, kills the Image of God, as it were in the eye."
-- Milton, Areopagitica, 1644

"There is no such thing as a moral book or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all."
-- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

"The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame."
-- Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Quotes taken from forbiddenlibrary.com.