Alison Gopnik - The ancient media of speech an...

The ancient media of speech and song and theater were radically reshaped by writing, though they were never entirely supplanted, a comfort perhaps to those of us who still thrill to the smell of a library.

Alison Gopnik

American Psychologist

Born: Jun 16, 1955

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Library, Song, Writing, Smell, Those, Though, Ancient, Entirely, Thrill, Never, Perhaps, Comfort, Still, Were, Theater, Us, Radically, Who, Media, Speech

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A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. That includes health information. And mental health information. It's a community space. It's a place of safety, a haven from the world. Neil Gaiman

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I dropped out of school, but I didn't drop out of life. I would leave the house each morning and go to the main branch of the Carnegie Library in Oakland where they had all the books in the world... I felt suddenly liberated from the constraints of a pre-arranged curriculum that labored through one book in eight months. August Wilson

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