"The vast waterfall of history pours down, and……" — Marilyn Johnson

"The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories."

— Marilyn Johnson

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12 Quotes by Marilyn Johnson

Marilyn Johnson has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who…
In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.
Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!
They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for…
Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.
We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books,…
Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging…
We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s…
I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever…
In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of…
Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education…

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