"Freedom is a public library."

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Paula Fox

#Library Quotes #Public Library Quotes

“I want to be bored. But I can't. But I really don't want to be this thing that I'm having to be instead of being bored.”

Source : Ali Smith (2014). “How to be Both”, p.252, Penguin UK
“It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out.”
“We get along, we talk music.Lenny Kravitz took me to Harlem to see this little jazz show in the back of a church. It was just shitty fluorescent lights and a small stage piano, but this band tore it up.”
“The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.”
“I'm always interested in a claustrophobic situation where people might be powerless to do things. My first three novels were all about families. Things that happen in a house within a family, because you're a child or because you want to keep the family together, you suffer things you might not have had to suffer if you weren't in that situation.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I asked a coughing friend of mine why he doesn't stop smoking. 'In this town it wouldn't do any good,' he explained. 'I happen to be a chain breather.'”
“Funny how you can live a whole life waiting and not know it.”

Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.215, Vintage
“I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.”

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