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> [“Fuck it, I thought. As Don Rumsfeld once said, "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you had.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/fuck-it-i-thought-as-don-rumsfeld-once-said-you-go-to-war-with-the/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

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## More by Avi Steinberg

> [“Fuck it, I thought. As Don Rumsfeld once said, "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/fuck-it-i-thought-as-don-rumsfeld-once-said-you-go-to-war-with-the/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“For days I kept imagining the fate of the world's misplaced letters. I started noticing them everywhere. All the right letters sitting on desks…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/for-days-i-kept-imagining-the-fate-of-the-world-s-misplaced-letters-i/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said. He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/i-think-you-re-more-an-archivist-than-a-librarian-he-said-he-told-me/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“I flipped to the author’s photo in the Library of America edition of O’Connor’s collected works, and forked it over. Solitary examined the photo.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/i-flipped-to-the-author-s-photo-in-the-library-of-america-edition-of/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/yet-for-quixotic-reasons-namely-that-i-enjoyed-writing-obits-i-had/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/i-don-t-need-no-smith-and-wesson-man-i-got-merriam-and-webster/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“An officer on an elevator in the Tower once told me he was proud of his job keeping bad guys out of society. "Someone's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/an-officer-on-an-elevator-in-the-tower-once-told-me-he-was-proud-of/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“Pimps make the best librarians. Psycho killers, the worst. Ditto con men. Gangsters, gunrunners, bank robbers- adept at crowd control, at collaborating with a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/pimps-make-the-best-librarians-psycho-killers-the-worst-ditto-con-men/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/all-across-america-public-libraries-were-and-are-being-shut-down/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“Pimps make the best librarians.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/pimps-make-the-best-librarians/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are unsentimental. They're pragmatic, concerned with the newest, cleanest, most popular books.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/he-told-me-that-archivists-and-librarians-were-opposite-personas-true/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“Harvard was a lovely assisted-living facility from which I'd emerged, like my classmates, stupider and more confident.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/harvard-was-a-lovely-assisted-living-facility-from-which-i-d-emerged/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“His elegant librarianship ... made me appreciate how order is created: Not through grand schemes - to which I was often drawn - but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/his-elegant-librarianship-made-me-appreciate-how-order-is-created-not/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“Unresolved shit, man, resolves itself eventually." --Chudney Franklin”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/unresolved-shit-man-resolves-itself-eventually-chudney-franklin/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

> [“The space itself - its piles of papers representing decades of tangled history - reminded me of all that I didn't know and couldn't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/avi-steinberg/the-space-itself-its-piles-of-papers-representing-decades-of-tangled/)

[Avi Steinberg](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/avi-steinberg/)

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