September 2011
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“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that We may yet have...”
– T.S. Eliot
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“The second lesson plan that I had in those days was a very lazy assessment of...”
– McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Welcoming Remarks Made at a Literary Reading, by John Hodgman, 9/25/01.
“I’d propose a different concatenation for the humanities: without reading, there...”
– Reading Is elemental | Harvard Magazine Sep-Oct 2011
“Once upon a more staid time, the purpose of children’s books was to model good...”
– The Children’s Authors Who Broke the Rules
“Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose.”
– At Emmys, `FNL’ finally lands in the end zone - Boston.com
“He’s reading someone who won’t speak
of milk & honey, but of...”
– The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems- Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More
“The purpose of poetry is to remind us
how difficult it is to remain just one...”
– Czeslaw Milosz, from “Ars Poetica?” (via bookoasis)
“It said its processing system was designed to deliver mail within a one- to...”
– Bottom Line - Struggling Postal Service announces ‘new reality’
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“You can’t list a single thing that has caused its demise,” he said. “But as...”
– Mass-Market Paperbacks Sales in Decline - NYTimes.com
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“The key is strengthening what psychologists call “executive function,” a...”
– Focusing On Focus | Wired Science | Wired.com
“Labor is prior to and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of...”
– The last Labor Day? - The Washington Post
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“Picking five favorite books is like picking the five body parts you’d most like...”
– Neil Gaiman (via thebooknookers)
“You cannot fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude...”
– Antonio Muñoz Molinas (via teachingliteracy)
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“I’d say the answer to this is that public libraries are important because of a...”
– Public libraries: A long-overdue argument | What’s Next: Top Trends 