"Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging."

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Source : "Susan Orlean New Book: Los Angeles Public Library Is The Subject". www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

Susan Orlean

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“In humility is the greatest freedom. As long as you have to defend the imaginary self that you think is important, you lose your piece of heart. As soon as you compare that shadow with the shadows of other people, you lose all joy, because you have begun to trade in unrealities and there is no joy in things that do not exist.”
“If you learn to set a good sail, the wind that blows will always take you to the dreams you want, the income you want, and the treasures of mind, purse, and soul you want.”
“I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.”
“There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.”
“Indians think it is important to remember, while Americans believe it is important to forget.”

Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1986). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, Boston : Beacon Press
“Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.”
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
“Punish the deed, not the breed.”

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