“ It wasn't that time stopped in the library. It was as if it were captured, collected here, and in all libraries and not only my time, my life, but all human time as well. In the library, time is dammed upnot just stopped but saved. ”
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“ It wasn't that time stopped in the library. It was as if it were captured, collected here, and in all libraries and not only my time, my life, but all human time as well. In the library, time is dammed upnot just stopped but saved. ”
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“ Goodhue wanted visitors to feel more than they were in a pretty building. He wanted them to feel they were part of a threedimensional meditation on the power of human intellect and the potency of storytelling. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ I wanted fo have my books around me, forming a totem pole of the narratives I'd visited. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ I wanted to have my books around me, forming a totem pole of the narratives I'd visited. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ The reading of a book was a journey. There was no need for souvenirs. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ [Quoting a letter by Charles F. Lummis]: books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ This is why I wanted to write this book, to tell about a place I love that doesn’t belong to me but feels like it is mine, and how that feels like a marvelous and exceptional thing. All the things that are wrong in the world seems conquered by a library’s simple unspoken promise: Here is my story, please listen; here I am, please tell me your story. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ A book feels like a thing alive in the moment, and also alive on a continuum, from the moment the thoughts about it first percolated in the writer's mind to the moment it sprang off the printing press a lifeline that continues as someone sits with it and marvels over it, and it continues on, time after time after time. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ Goodhue wanted visitors to feel more than they were in a pretty building. He wanted them to feel they were part of a threedimensional meditation on the power of human intellect and the potency of storytelling. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ I wanted fo have my books around me, forming a totem pole of the narratives I'd visited. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ I wanted to have my books around me, forming a totem pole of the narratives I'd visited. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ The reading of a book was a journey. There was no need for souvenirs. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ Books are a sort of cultural DNA, the code for who, as a society, we are, and what we know. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ [Quoting a letter by Charles F. Lummis]: books are the last things that any human being can afford to do without. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ This is why I wanted to write this book, to tell about a place I love that doesn’t belong to me but feels like it is mine, and how that feels like a marvelous and exceptional thing. All the things that are wrong in the world seems conquered by a library’s simple unspoken promise: Here is my story, please listen; here I am, please tell me your story. ”
- Susan Orlean- Copy
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“ A book feels like a thing alive in the moment, and also alive on a continuum, from the moment the thoughts about it first percolated in the writer's mind to the moment it sprang off the printing press a lifeline that continues as someone sits with it and marvels over it, and it continues on, time after time after time. ”
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