Quote by Richard Powers
Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mi

Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. – 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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My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible. – Richard Powers

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Technology
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I think that if the novels task is to describe where we find ourselves and how we live now, the novelist must take a good, hard look at the most central facts of contemporary life – technology and science. – Richard Powers

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Science
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Other Quotes from
Libraries
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We should burn all libraries and allow to remain only that which everyone knows by heart. A beautiful age of the legend would then begin. – Hugo Ball

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Libraries

The library lets you borrow the beauty and keep the knowledge. – Author Unknown

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Libraries

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. – Samuel Johnson

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Libraries

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Libraries

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