"Public libraries are the sole community centers left……" — Russell Banks
"Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture."
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40 Quotes by Russell Banks
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I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a…
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My major allegiance has been to storytelling, not to history.
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Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they…
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For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living…
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Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of…
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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you…
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If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter.
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Boys like it when you talk to them as if they were grown men—at least he always did when he…
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We are the planet, fully as much as water, earth, fire and air are the planet, and if the planet…
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One hates a person for the same reason one loves himÂ
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It was strange to stand there in front of the mirror and see myself like I was my own best…
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What you believe matters, however. It’s all anyone has to act on. And since what you do is who you…
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When bright young minds can't afford college, America pays the price.
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There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful…
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God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as…
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks…
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It's frightening how easy it is to commit murder in America. Just a drink too much. I can see myself…
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If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do…
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