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125915e In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian. libraries library librarian Alberto Manguel
61c0f35 A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion. fragile librarian protection Umberto Eco
c8cfd71 She's a librarian, Sim said. They're not teachers; don't give you half as much hassle. If there's a fire in the school and I've got to choose who I'm gonna save - a teacher or a librarian - the teacher's gonna burn every time. (p. 24) librarian teacher teens Keith Gray
97a9df9 The commander went, as they say in Ankh-Morpork, totally Librarian on them. humour librarian Terry Pratchett
9181b87 The problem of the librarian is that books are multi-dimensional in their subject matter but must be ordered on one-dimensional shelves. librarian Neal Stephenson
b1731f9 Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand. library jobs librarian christmas David Davis
e84291f Goat curry and a female librarian, that's what I'm in the mood for. librarian Ben Katchor
fc6b4f5 It is odd, isn't it? Whenever I read something interesting, I tear out a piece and keep it as a talisman until I find something new to replace it with. It's a sort of superstition. I did it once and it helped me break out of writer's block, so I've done it ever since. Librarians must hate me. books librarian Mohsin Hamid
574ebf7 So where does one go in such a wobbly, elusive, dynamic, confusing age? Wherever the librarians and archivists are. They're sorting it all out for us. archivists librarianship librarian librarians Marilyn Johnson
1a7dae2 Dona Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por alli por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una pila de libros que denominaba <>. Dona Lorena decia que el nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros. <>. Durante la guerra la metieron en la carcel de mujeres y dijeron que se habia ahorcado en su celda. reading women books libros librarian mujeres lectura Carlos Ruiz Zafón
fac5b4a Children's books can break [the] silence. Reading the un-bowdlerized classics of children's literature can help young people understand that racism is not anomalous. It is embedded in the culture, and defended by cultural gatekeepers. racism classic-literature librarian Philip Nel