“It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.”
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“It seems to me that the dedication of a library is in itself an act of faith.”
Remarks at the Dedication of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library at Hyde Park, New York, United States of America (June 30, 1941). Archived https://web.archive.org/web/20120531110501/http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/php63041.html from the original http://docs.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/php63041.html on January 30, 2021.
1940s
“A man's library is a sort of harem.”
“Doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?”
David Shuster: Chelsea Being "Pimped Out?", Feb 7, 2008 ( YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIxgw04Y0Fc) : On Chelsea Clinton campaigning for her mother.
On MSNBC
Source: Quiet, Please: Dispatches From A Public Librarian
“Anyone whose goal is 'something higher' must expect some day to suffer vertigo.”
pg 56
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984), Part Two: Soul and Body
Letter to Mrs. F. G. Whitmore (February 7, 1907)
Age of Bronze, Stanza 3, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Truth consists not in never lying but in knowing when to lie and when not to do so.”
Falsehood, i
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler (1912), Part XIX - Truth and Convenience
