“My library is an archive of longings.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
Speech (26 December 1986), quoted in "Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet."
1980s
“My library is an archive of longings.”
Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
Source: As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980
“My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.”
David Mamet (1947) American playwright, essayist, screenwriter, and film director
Chicago Public Library Foundation, 2007-12-20 http://www.chicagopubliclibraryfoundation.org/,
“In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.”
Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter
“When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”
Rita Mae Brown (1944) Novelist, poet, screenwriter, activist
“I'm so glad that you're in my life, you fill my heart, you fill my sky.”
Marco Mengoni (1988) Italian singer-songwriter
Solo 2.0
Source: da Tonight
“You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.”
Elizabeth Kostova book The Historian
Source: The Historian
“What I am and what I know I owe to my father’s library and to my mother’s salon.”
Nicolaus Sombart (1923–2008) German sociologist
Original : Was ich bin und weiß, verdanke ich der Bibliothek meines Vaters und dem Salon meiner Mutter.
Source: Jugend in Berlin. München: Hanser Verlag, 1984. p. 57
“A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.”
Stewart Brand (1938) American writer
Source: How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
“Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome.”
Peter Greenaway (1942) British film director
Jerome's suicide note
The Pillow Book