"Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time."

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Source : Lawrence Clark Powell (1987). “Next to Mother's Milk--: An Engelhard Lecture on the Book”

Lawrence Clark Powell

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“I'm almost thirty and my day job is folding shirts at the Gap. Have you seen my room? I'm not messy. I'm rebelling against folding.”
“A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.”
“Daniel Radcliffe told me once that you should always keep the people around you that you know are going to tell you the truth.”

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“I may have a general broad-based idea of what I want to write about when I sit down to write a book, but I don't have any idea of what it's going to say. I would call my experience of creativity 'inspired by God' to produce certain pieces of information that might be useful to others.”
“The Good Friday Agreement and the basic rights and entitlements of citizens that are enshrined within it must be defended and actively promoted by London and Dublin.”
“The hardest thing of all for a soldier is to retreat.”
“Spaces may or may not invite the image - if they do, they mostly do it with their spatial layers of time... It is then the image that takes the place of the space; the image in its own right.”
“I wish there would be more movies about scientists.”

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