“A NICE THOUGHT
One was a book thief.
The other stole the sky.”
Variant: One was a book thief. The other stole the sky.
Source: The Book Thief
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Markus Zusak 214
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Poem: The Jackdaw of Rheims http://www.bartleby.com/246/108.html
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“Do not despair: one thief was saved. Do not presume: one thief was damned.”
Attributed to St. Augustine in The Repentance of Robert Greene, Master of Arts http://www.oxford-shakespeare.com/Greene/Repentance_Robert_Greene.pdf (1592) by Robert Greene.
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Variant: Do not despair; one of the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned.
“The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.”
Source: The Book Thief
Speech on Religious Intolerance as presented at the Pittsburgh Opera House (14 October 1879).
Context: They say the religion of your fathers is good enough. Why should a father object to your inventing a better plow than he had? They say to me, do you know more than all the theologians dead? Being a perfectly modest man I say I think I do. Now we have come to the conclusion that every man has a right to think. Would God give a bird wings and make it a crime to fly? Would he give me brains and make it a crime to think? Any God that would damn one of his children for the expression of his honest thought wouldn't make a decent thief. When I read a book and don't believe it, I ought to say so. I will do so and take the consequences like a man.
“Prometheus, thief of light, giver of light, bound by the gods, must have been a book.”
Source: House of Leaves