the theater should be
the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. … I want the theater to be made accessible to the people. Eva Le Gallienne
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the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. … I want the theater to be made accessible to the people. Eva Le Gallienne
The public library is more than a repository of books. It’s a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. Elizabeth Taylor
I’m not particularly inventive. If you left me in а room and told me to write a novel, I wouldn’t be able to do it. But if you gave me two years in a public library around the corner, I could. It all comes from sort of mixing the true and the invented. I’m not … Read more
The best place to find things: the public library. Edward Bernays
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable management of those of the nineteenth century, in which the books were jealously railed away from the people, and obtainable only at an expenditure of time and red tape calculated to discourage any … Read more
…Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases. Until her discovery of Something Fresh on the top shelf of Ruth’s bookshelf one bored summer morning, Frankie’s leisure reading had consister primarily of paperback mysteries she found on the … Read more
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues can persecute writers and tell them what to write as much as they like, but they cannot vanish what has been written in the past, though they try often enough…People who love literature … Read more
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. Doris Lessing
We must not think of learning as only what happens in schools. It is an extended part of life. The most readily available resource for all of life is our public library system. David McCullough
I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries… What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I’d seen in the Library of Congress. David McCullough