"Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men,"

-- James Smithson

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“Heaven, Kiwi thought, would be the reading room of a great library. But it would be private. Cozy. You wouldnâ€™t have to worry about some squeaky-shoed librarian turning the lights off on you or gauging your literacy by reading the names on your book spines, and there wouldnâ€™t be a single other patron. The whole place would hum with a libraryâ€™s peace, filtering softly over you like white bars of lightâ€¦”

Source : FaceBook post by Karen Russell from Dec 02, 2012
“I live for art. I love entertaining people, making them smile and think. I love to know that a little piece of what they see, read or what they listen to is something that they can think about or see the world in a different way. Art is never-ending and Iâ€™d like to leave something that survives me when Iâ€™ll die.”
“We are blind to the worlds within us, waiting to be born.”
“Everyone who reads me is someone I'd like to hang out with.”
“People who live in quiet, remote places are apt to give good dinners. They are the oft-recurring excitement of an otherwise unemotional, dull existence. They linger, each of these dinners, in our palimpsest memories, each recorded clearly, so that it does not blot out the others.”
“Once you put yourself in the hands of the government, you could end up in Utah.”
“Recognize, you ARE Home. Not, you are 'at home'... you ARE Home. Not, you have 'come home'... you ARE Home. You are that which IS Home.”
“There's no such thing as autobiography, there's only art and lies”

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