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It's an amazing thing to watch a lizard fold a moth into its mouth, like a sword swallower who specialises in umbrellas.
Elizabeth McCracken -
Life likes jokes; life is constantly making jokes, even at the most inopportune moments.
Elizabeth McCracken
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Vilnius was once known as 'The Jerusalem of Lithuania' because of the number of prayer houses and scholars there; in the first half of the 20th century, it became a center of Yiddish-language scholarship.
Elizabeth McCracken -
I can't imagine not joking even at the worst of times. And for me, it's sort of automatic.
Elizabeth McCracken -
There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons. I love books, but books are everywhere. Library patrons are as various and oddball and democratic as library books.
Elizabeth McCracken