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Lawrence Clark Powell has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long…
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The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to…
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I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it…
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[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living,…
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This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.
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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then…
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I have always been reconciled to the fact that I was born a bibliomaniac, never have I sought a cure, and my…
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Books are islands in the ocean of time. They are also oases in the deserts of time.
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A book is one of the most patient of all man's inventions. Centuries mean nothing to a well-made book. It awaits its…
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Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a…
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Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.
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Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
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All attempts to adapt our ethical code to our situation in the technological age have failed.
— Max Born
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When most objects are truly functional, this technological age, which is just beginning, will be truly civilised. When all objects in this…
— Robin Boyd
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I take drugs just because in the 20th century in a technological age living in the city there are certain drugs you…
— Lou Reed
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Our enthusiasm for digital technology about which we have little understanding and over which we have little control leads us not toward…
— Douglas Rushkoff
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In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a…
— J. C. R. Licklider
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I know when I grew up, it was, if it was daylight outside, get outside. Well, now, with the technological age of…
— Matthew McConaughey
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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is…
— Lawrence Clark Powell
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School has become the world religion of a modernized proletariat, and makes futile promises of salvation to the poor of the technological…
— Ivan Illich
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In the middle ages, people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny,…
— Charles Krauthammer
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