Paula Spencer quotes

My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library.
-- Paula Spencer

#Library #Identity #Branches

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

As a result of the awareness and consciousness of decline, an awareness and consciousness of a national ethnicity or an Islamic identity also came into being.

If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

I actually run a non-profit where one of the main objectives is to branch out and get a new audience for the theater. Just because the writing is so good and nothing is more effective than seeing something live and happening right in front of your face, so I definitely want to continue to pursue that.

Unless the chemist learns the language of mathematics, he will become a provincial and the higher branches of chemical work, that require reason as well as skill, will gradually pass out of his hands.

Success can be attained in any branch of labor. There’s always room at the top in every pursuit.

I was born in Long Branch, New Jersey, and no one had ever taught anybody that young, back in those days.