Joanne
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They loved reading theory, this single monolithic thing called theory books, which were in reality unified only by the fact that their spines were universally uncracked, their pages unopened, and their ideas, their theories, utterly unknown
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“Gregory [Corso] made lists of books for me to read, told me the best dictionary to own, encouraged and challenged me. Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, and William Burroughs were all my teachers, each one passing through the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel, my new university.”
― Just Kids
― Just Kids
“Everything I had worked for, all my years of study, had been to purchase for myself this one privilege: to see and experience more truths than those given to me by my father, and to use those truths to construct my own mind. I had come to believe that the ability to evaluate many ideas, many histories, many points of view, was at the heart of what it means to self-create. If I yielded now, I would lose more than an argument. I would lose custody of my own mind. This was the price I was being asked to pay, I understood that now. What my father wanted to cast from me wasn’t a demon: it was me.”
― Educated
― Educated
“No one will write books once they reach heaven, but there is an excellent library, containing all the books written up to date, including all the lost books and the ones that the authors burned when they came back from the last publisher.”
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“You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at.”
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“Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials.”
― Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
― Gunn's Golden Rules: Life's Little Lessons for Making It Work
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