"Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance."

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Francis Keppel

#Ignorance Quotes #Library Quotes #Weight Quotes

“I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.”
“When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.”
“I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.”
“[A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.”

Source : Sharon M. Draper (2012). “Out of My Mind”, p.23, Simon and Schuster
“I am anxious that the world should be inclined to look to painters for information about painting. I hope to show that ours is a regularly taught profession; that it is scientific as well as poetic; that imagination alone never did, and never can, produce works that are to stand by a comparison with realities.”
“Woody's [Allen] very relaxed with the cast and likes them to do their thing and is not an over-director type. Somehow it works.”
“There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.”
“I actually did my research and tried to get kind of like a working visa for Australia. It always seemed like it was a land of opportunities. The same size as the United States with one-tenth of the population.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com

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