Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.
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The sad thing about any business I suppose, but in mine you see it particularly, is that you’re always asked to do what you’ve already done.
Author : Jeremy Irons
One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.
Author : Virginia Woolf
Human brutes, like other beasts, find snares and poison in the provision of life, and are allured by their appetites to their destruction.
Author : Jonathan Swift
The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago… had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
Author : Henry Ellis
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Author : George Bernard Shaw
Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.
Author : Ralph Waldo Emerson
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
Author : H. L. Mencken
Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.
Author : Lord Acton
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
Author : Edgar Allan Poe
As I’ve said many times, the single most oppressed class in America right now is the teenager.