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

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Libraries are the wardrobes of literature, whence men, properly informed may bring forth something for ornament, much for curiosity, and more for use. – William Dyer

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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. – Erma Bombeck

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Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke, and Bacon were only young men in libraries, when they wrote these books. Hence, instead of Man Thinking, we have the book-worm. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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