Annie Dillard Quotes About Libraries

Quotes about: Libraries

• It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first.

  Annie Dillard

  Special, Library, World

  Annie Dillard (1994). “The Annie Dillard reader”, Harpercollins

• If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't?

  Annie Dillard

  Men, Rocks, Interesting

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.149, Canongate Books

• When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone’s way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one.

  Annie Dillard

  Book, Blow, Land

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.77, Canongate Books

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