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“Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.”
― This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
― This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All

“Books are the carriers of civilization...They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.”
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“I think you should be a child for as long as you can. I have been successful for 74 years being able to do that.”
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“To struggle against censorship, whatever its nature, and whatever the power under which it exists, is my duty as a writer, as are calls for freedom of the press. I am a passionate supporter of that freedom, and I consider that if any writer were to imagine that he could prove he didn't need that freedom, then he would be like a fish affirming in public that it didn't need water.”
― Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov A Life in Letters and Diaries
― Manuscripts Don't Burn: Mikhail Bulgakov A Life in Letters and Diaries

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