“The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library.”
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American author and cartoonist 1933Related quotes
“… bookstores, libraries… they're the closest thing I have to a church.”
Jim C. Hines (1974) American writer
Source: Libriomancer
Shelby Foote (1916–2005) Novelist, historian
Shelby Foote quoted in: North Carolina Libraries, Vol. 51-54 (1993), p. 162
“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”
Norman Cousins (1915–1990) American journalist
Aphra Behn (1640–1689) British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
The Lucky Mistake (1689).
Source: The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman's Bargain
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) British politician
Variant: Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.
Terence McKenna (1946–2000) American ethnobotanist
Trialogue #24: The Heavens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWqvY7CGaHw Esalen, California (1992)
“We are closest to life when we are vying with death”
David Gemmell book The Swords of Night and Day
Source: Drenai series, The Swords of Night and Day, Ch. 11
Context: We are closest to life when we are vying with death... The blood runs hot, the air smells sweet, the sky becomes an unbearably beautiful blue. Battle is intoxicating. That is why the ghastly vileness of war has always been so popular.
