“If you want to know who the oppressed minorities in America are, simply look at who gets their own shelf in the bookstore. A black shelf, a women's shelf, and a gay shelf.”
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Armistead Maupin 6
American writer 1944Related quotes
“The dust and silence of the upper shelf.”
On Milton (1825)
“She loved the smell of books, the feel of books, the look of them on the shelf.”
Source: Houses of Stone
“You can't hoard fun. It has no shelf life.”
Source: Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
“My wealth is my shelf of books!”
Source: Demon Princes (1964-1981), The Face (1979), Chapter 14 (p. 173)
“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
Source: The Books in My Life
“In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.”
Source: The Library at Night
“Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.”
The Wall Street Journal (December 29, 2011).
Attributed
“I cannot live with you,
It would be life,
And life is over there
Behind the shelf”
Source: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“There's a Bible on that shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire – poison and antidote.”
In Kenneth Harris Talking To: Bertrand Russell (1971)
Attributed from posthumous publications