Special Collections Library

Famous quotes containing the words special, collections and/or library:

    If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.
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    Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.
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    It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn’t.
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