"There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries),……" — Marilyn Johnson
"There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up."
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12 Quotes by Marilyn Johnson
Marilyn Johnson has 12 quotes on this site.
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In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.
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Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!
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They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for…
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Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.
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We'll always need printed books that don't mutate the way digital books do; we'll always need places to display books,…
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Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging…
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We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s…
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I was under the librarians' protection. Civil servants and servants of civility, they had my back. The would be whatever…
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The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.
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In tight economic times, with libraries sliding farther and farther down the list of priorities, we risk the loss of…
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Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education…
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I love hearing my audience breathe.
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Sometimes when I think how good my book can be, I can hardly breathe.
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