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“Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.”
― This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
― This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
“Reading Marguerite Young's 1,200-page Miss MacIntosh, My Darling was like slipping into a luxurious opium dream.”
― The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
― The Novel: An Alternative History: Beginnings to 1600
“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”
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“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it.”
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“Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.”
― Street Haunting
― Street Haunting
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