The word 'yes' is just a sound. It's nothing without context. It can signal the end of a life, an exultation after a scored basket or a vanquished foe; it can answer questions or refute them; it's an affirmation.

Josh Hanagarne

Stichwörter: affirmation yes



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I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live.

Josh Hanagarne

Stichwörter: library-science



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I also work here because I love books, because I'm inveterately curious, and because, like most librarians, I'm not well suited to anything else. As a breed, we're the ultimate generalists. I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live.

Josh Hanagarne

Stichwörter: librarians



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It is what is. I repeated, looking at him in the eyes. No. It isn't. That's stupidity right up there with 'failure is not an option.' Of course it's an option or there wouldn't be any sort of adventure to it, would there? The word 'adventure' means undetermined outcome, did you know that? So failure would have to be an option, right?

Josh Hanagarne


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The public library contains multitudes. And each person who visits contains multitudes as well. Each of us is a library of thoughts, memories, experiences, and odors. We adapt to one another to produce the human condition.

Josh Hanagarne

Stichwörter: libraries human-condition



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At its loftiest, a library's goal is to keep as many minds as possible in the game ...

Josh Hanagarne


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A community that doesn't think it needs a library isn't a community for whom a library is irrelevant. It's a community that's ill.

Josh Hanagarne


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A mind can be lost without its owner's death. A mind that no longer questions only fulfills the rudimentary aspects of its function.

Josh Hanagarne


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The library has a robust collection of what I call non-cuddly hate lit. This is one of my favorite things about working here: If you believe censorship is poison, here lies paradise.

Josh Hanagarne


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A library is a miracle. A place where you can learn just about anything, for free. A place where your mind can come alive.

Josh Hanagarne


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