"The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next."

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Source : John Cotton Dana (2012). “A Library Primer”, p.16, tredition

John Cotton Dana

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“Poverty is easy to bear if it is only temporary, easier still if it is an entirely voluntary burden.”
“The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.”
“What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only the real.”
“Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.”
“You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.”

Source : "Beach Boys' Mike Love Vs. Brian Wilson: Battle of the LA Times Letters" by Chris Willman, www.hollywoodreporter.com. October 10, 2012.
“There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.”
“There is never a personal-life connection between my characters and myself. I'm a professional and I can access what I need to access, so there's no bleed-over. I didn't need to believe in aliens to play Mulder. As for my personal life, everything is fantastic right now.”
“In L.A., I like to surf. I went through a phase - I was surfing four days a week. I'm still not good at it; I still spend most of my time falling.”

Source : "Jess Weixler Is Comedy's Next Big Thing". Interview with Lorraine Cwelich, www.elle.com. March 28, 2013.

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