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“I don’t eat salad.” “Oh, come on, man, everyone eats salad!” “Not me.” Pause. “I love Dr Pepper.”
This just made me lol
The library is a gathering pool of narratives and of the people who come to find them. It is where we can glimpse immortality; in the library, we can live forever.
In Senegal, the polite expression for saying someone died is to say his or her library has burned.
Our minds and souls contain volumes inscribed by our experiences and emotions; each individual’s consciousness is a collection of memories we’ve cataloged and stored inside us, a private library of a life lived.
“library-educated,”
patrons were discouraged from reading too many novels, lest they turn into what the association labeled “fiction fiends.”
