Michael Dirda Quotes
The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
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The fondest dream of the information age is to create an archive of all knowledge. You might call it the Alexandrian fantasy, after the great library founded by Ptolemy I in 286 BC.
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.
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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.
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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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Youku Tudou is a hybrid, like combining Netflix and YouTube. Like Netflix, with Youku, which launched in 2005, we syndicate a library of longform content and create original content. The Tudou model started with user-generated content but is increasingly becoming about partner-generated programming.
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May books spread the world over!
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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As wonderful as being on stage is, family comes first.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.
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Books are still my favorite present.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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I spent a lot of time developing in books why worshipping separately actually impacts inequality, economic, social, on and on. So I really do believe there are huge advantages to being together even though it's difficult, even though we have a lot to learn.
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I am happily married to a wonderful man. He is not in the business.
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Observe that it is a great error to believe that all mediums of art are not closely tied to their time.
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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
