James Turner Quotes

#1. Since at least the Sixth Century all librarians have received extensive combat training and are lethal with even the common toothpick.

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#2. Just because I'm a librarian doesn't mean I'm at all tame.

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#3. That's it then. This is how it ends. I haven't even read Proust.

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#4. Now ... get Thoth a raspberry chocolate latte with the cream and chocolate sprinkles! Thoth commands, librarian! Obey! Sprinkles! THOTH HAS SPOKEN!

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#5. Isn't it obvious in in today's world from people's preoccupation with self-medication, drug and alcohol use, rationalization and avoidance distraction that the truth doesn't just hurt, it's extremely painful.

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#6. When times are bad smile, when times are good laugh.

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#7. Civilization is knowledge, even more than it is urbanization, for you cannot have the latter without the former. Everything builds on everything else. And the knowledge of civilization is kept in repositories known as ... LIBRARIES, and if books burn, civilization burns with them.

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#8. Does not people's preoccupation these days with drugs, alcohol, medication and self deception prove that the truth not only hurts, but it is torture to bear?

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#9. The Librarian has spoken, sally! We Dare Not Disobey!

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#10. Life is a series of decisions Ella, and some of us make the wrong ones.

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#11. When I see imposters like ... Swinburne, [and] Fleay, who know as much early English as my dog, & who fancy they can settle Chaucer difficulties as they blow their noses, then I ridicule or kick them. But earnest students I treat with respect, & am only too glad to learn from them.

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