“I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.”
Virginia Woolf (1882–1941) English writer
Source: Virginia Woolf
“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
— Stephen Fry, book The Liar
The Liar (1991)
1990s
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