“It was an astonishing thing for a young kid who grew up in a society like Santo Domingo — where I didn’t have access to libraries — to be told, ‘this belongs to all of us,’” Díaz tells Bill.
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“I spent three days a week for ten years educating myself in the public library and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of ten years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories”
Ray Bradbury
You must write every single day of your life… You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads… may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
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The Gift of Books
We’ve entered into the ultimate gift-giving season and one of my favorite gifts both to give and…
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Now that we could order any book at any hour without having to leave the screen in front of us, we realized what we had lost: the community center, the human interaction, the recommendation of a smart reader rather than a computer algorithm telling us what other shoppers had purchased. I promised whoever was listening that from those very ashes, the small independent bookstore would rise again.
(The Bookstore Strikes Back - Ann Patchett - The Atlantic
Required reading. Also, Ann Patchett for queen. Of whatever.
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)Jon Stewart, explaining to young people why books are awesome.
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Jon Stewart, explaining to young people why books are awesome.
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