When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book. (Karen Joy Fowler)

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.

Karen Joy Fowler

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