"Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your……" — Robin Sloan
"Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits."
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34 Quotes by Robin Sloan
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America pays defense contractors to build aircraft carriers. Google pays brilliant programmers to do whatever the hell they want.
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...I can’t stop squirming. If fidgets were Wikipedia edits, I would have completely revamped the entry on guilt by now,…
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Kat bought a New York Times but couldn’t figure out how to operate it, so now she’s fiddling with her…
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But I kept at it with the help-wanted ads. My standards were sliding swiftly. At first I had insisted I…
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I walk alone in the darkness and wonder how a person would begin to determine the circumference of the earth.…
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If this sounds impressive to you, you’re over thirty.
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After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember…
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There is no immortality that is not built on friendship and work done with care. All the secrets in the…
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You know, I'm really starting to think the whole world is just a patchwork quilt of crazy little cults, all…
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Neel takes a sharp breath and I know exactly what it means. It means: I have waited my whole life…
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Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.
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Some of them are working very hard indeed. “What are they doing?” “My boy!” he said, eyebrows raised. As if…
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
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