Quote by Germaine Greer
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of

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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Love, love, love — all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures. – Germaine Greer

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The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges. – Germaine Greer

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Every time a man unburdens his heart to a stranger he reaffirms the love that unites humanity. – Germaine Greer

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

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To build up a library is to create a life. – Carlos María Domínguez

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

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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks. – Henry Rollins

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As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means. – Albert Camus

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I cant talk about foreign policy like anyone whos spent their life reading and learning foreign policy. But as a citizen in a democracy, its very important that I participate in that. – Ron Silver

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We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. – Jonathan Swift

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The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder. – Angela Carter

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