"There is a hideous invention called the Dewey……" — Libba Bray
"There is a hideous invention called the Dewey Decimal System. And you have to look up your topic in books and newspapers. Pages upon pages upon pages…” Uncle Will frowned. “Didn’t they teach you how to go about research in that school of yours?” “No. But I can recite ‘The Battle Hymn of the Republic’ while making martinis.” “I weep for the future.” “There’s where the martinis come in."
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440 Quotes by Libba Bray
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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams…
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I've heard it said that God is in the details. It's the same with the truth. Leave out the details,…
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I'm like everyone else in this stupid, bloody, amazing world. I'm flawed. Impossibly so. But hopeful. I'm still me.
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Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever…
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I stare at the pile of discarded remnants and think of my mother. Did she touch that pillar there? Does…
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Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow…
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Prohibition? I drink to its health whenever I can.
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"Promise. Don't misunderstand me-you are quite vexing." He touches his tender jaw. "And you hit like a man. But you…
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Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life;…
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So much of the literature we had to read for high school English class was filled with victimized, tragic, symbolic…
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We're still expected to color within the lines of accepted femininity, and women who step out of those lines are…
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In each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice.…
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When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men…
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Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is…
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It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain…
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Producing is so exciting because you can enable things to happen, whether it's like discovering a filmmaker who you're taking…
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You don't argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn't eat candy for dinner. You don't punch a mentally…
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Some of the greatest battles will be fought within the silent chambers of your own soul.
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Muhammadan law in its relation to women, is a pattern to European law. Look back to the history of Islam,…
— Annie Besant
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Battle, n., A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would not yield to the tongue.
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By showing hunger, deprivation, starvation and brutality, as well as endurance and nobility, documentaries inform, prod our memories, even stir…
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But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness,…
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This is not a battle between the United States of America and terrorism, but between the free and democratic world…
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When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a…
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