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A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.
I'm not a man who likes to define his identity too narrowly.
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
They who are in the highest places, and have the most power, have the least liberty, because they are the most observed.
No limits whatever are placed to the productions of the earth; they may increase forever.
Historians are the consummate hairdressers of the literary world: cooing in public, catty in private.
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
