"Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts."

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Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.59, Macmillan

Jo Walton

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“That was the problem with loving people: it made you weak. It made you need them. It made the thought of not having them the worst thing in the world.”
“Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.”
“The mind is an evolved computer program.”
“Thought breeds thought; children familiar with great thoughts take as naturally to thinking for themselves as the well-nourished body takes to growing; and we must bear in mind that growth, physical, intellectual, moral, spiritual, is the sole end of education.”
“In my mind God made Adam and Eve, he didn't make Adam and Steve.”
“Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn.”
“In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.”
“I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.”

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