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“You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl.”
― Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
― Nice Girls Don't Have Fangs
“Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege.”
― Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
― Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy
“Librarians, Dusty, possess a vast store of politeness. These are people who get asked regularly the dumbest questions on God's green earth. These people tolerate every kind of crank and eccentric and mouth breather there is.”
― Dusty And Lefty: The Lives of the Cowboys
― Dusty And Lefty: The Lives of the Cowboys
“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― A Man Without a Country
So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”
― A Man Without a Country
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