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Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. – Richard Powers

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I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects. – Richard Powers

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Science
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Richard Powers
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I write the way you might arrange flowers. Not every try works, but each one launches another. Every constraint, even dullness, frees up a new design. – Richard Powers

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design
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Richard Powers
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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world. – Richard Powers

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Politics
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Other Quotes from
Libraries
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Libraries: The medicine chest of the soul. – Library at Thebes, inscription over the door

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Libraries

A great library contains the diary of the human race. – George Mercer Dawson

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Libraries

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization. – Timothy Healy

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Libraries

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark…. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. – Germaine Greer

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Libraries

Random Quotes

I thought marriage was something very quiet and very regular and very bourgeois. – Carla Bruni

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Marriage

There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. – Christopher Morley

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good

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny. – David Sedaris

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funny

We have no higher life that is really apart from other people. It is by imagining them that our personality is built up; to be without the power of imagining them is to be a low-grade idiot. – Charles Horton Cooley

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People