Alessandra

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Alessandra’s Notes & Highlights

A Thousand Miles by Bridget Morrissey

2 highlights

It’s the most annoying thing about me. I need to know everything. Then I don’t know what to do with the information once I have it.

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Alessandra’s Quotes

“When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too.”
― Bill Moyers

tags: community, democracy, librarianship, libraries, progressivism

14 likes

“‎The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

tags: libraries

27 likes

“Libraries
Are
Neccessary
Gardens,
Unsurpassed
At
Growing
Excitement”
― J. Patrick Lewis, Please Bury Me in the Library

tags: books, libraries, library, reading

14 likes

“Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.”
― Eva Ibbotson, A Company of Swans

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“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists."

[The Premise Of Meaning, American Scholar; Washington, DC, June 5, 1972]”
― Archibald MacLeish

tags: books, knowledge, libraries, reading

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