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Kristine Brancolini
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“One of the loudest voices to address this issue belonged to the American Library Association (ALA). Librarians felt duty-bound to try to stop Hitler from succeeding in his war of ideas against the United States. They had no intention of purging their shelves or watching their books burn, and they were not going to wait until war was declared to take action.”
― When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
― When Books Went to War: The Stories That Helped Us Win World War II
“What if we had a chance to do it again and again, until we finally did get it right? Wouldn't that be wonderful?”
― Life After Life
― Life After Life
“For those few minutes I experienced a feeling of complete mastery, a perfect, unstable equilibrium. The kind of perfection that belongs only to things that are temporary, destined to end shortly.”
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“We felt in control of ourselves, we felt hopeful that we had made the right choice, we felt weary, we felt all of thee things at the same time, but more so: we felt we could not turn back.”
― The Wives of Los Alamos
― The Wives of Los Alamos
“You don’t realise how language actually interferes with communication until you don’t have it, how it gets in the way like an overdominant sense.”
― Euphoria
― Euphoria
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