"Librarians are serious people, seldomgiven to idle jocularity. The reason for this, I believe, is because we are overwhelmed by the enormous number of good books waiting to be read, leaving little time for frivolity. My personal list of must-read books presents a daunting challenge; I can't even imagine the pressure our head librarian must be under."

-- Lynn Austin

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“I feel most comfortable keeping versatile when it comes to music genres.”
“I began to wonder - I knew I was an artist or wanted to be one - but I was wondering whether I really was an artist. I was doing such ordinary things that I could feel the difference. Most people would look at those things and say, 'Well, that's nothing. What did you do that for? That's just a wreck of a car or a wreck of a man. That's nothing. That isn't art.' They don't say that anymore.”
“But you're disappointed." He brushed a strand of hair from her face. "It's not possible for you to disappoint me.”
“I think attacks on civilians in fact boost morale.”

Source : "Death to Jewish settlers, says anti-Zionist poet" by Sarah Hall, www.theguardian.com. April 12, 2002.
“Fall in love in such a way that it frees you from any connecting.”
“An original artist is unable to copy. So he has only to copy in order to be original.”
“She took kisses like so many coats of paint [â€¦] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make her amorality if not palatable at lest understandable. I realize now the time I wasted in this way; instead of enjoying her and turning aside from these preoccupations with the thought, â€˜She is untrustworthy as she is beautiful. She takes love as plants do water, lightly, thoughtlessly.”
“Humanity is undergoing, in the post-Cold War era, an economic and social crisis of unprecedented scale leading to the rapid impoverishment of large sectors of the world population.”

Source : "The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order". Book by Michel Chossudovsky, 2003.

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