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Quote by Luigi Barzini
I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and em

I myself spent hours at the Columbia library as intimidated and embarassed as a famished gourmet invited to a dream restaurant where every dish from all the worlds cuisines, past and present, was available on request. – Luigi Barzini

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Public and private food in America has become eatable, here and there extremely good. Only the fried potatoes go unchanged, as deadly as before. – Luigi Barzini

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They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fishermans octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach. – Luigi Barzini

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To put up a show is to face lifes injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination. – Luigi Barzini

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There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that. – J. Donald Adams

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My books are very few, but then the world is before me – a library open to all – from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me – in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve. – Joseph Howe, 1824

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. – Mark Twain, 1894

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

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