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“The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the language. "Let it be a challenge to you" means you're stuck with it; "interpersonal relationships" is a fight between kids; "ancillary civic agencies for supportive discipline" means call the cops; "Language Arts Dept." is the English office; "literature based on child's reading level and experiential background" means that's all they've got in the Book Room; "non-academic-minded" is a delinquent; and "It has come to my attention" means you're in trouble.”

Source: Up the Down Staircase

“One thing I discovered is that the book world is vast. It's easy to walk around the store - even the room with literature and poetry, where I work most often - and feel overwhelmed.”

World Feels Book Literature Easy Walks Rooms One Thing Stores Overwhelmed

Author:Kevin Sampsell

“All round the room my silent servants wait, My friends in every season, bright and dim.”

Literature Waiting Rooms My Friends Seasons Silent Rounds Servant

Author:Bryan Procter

“I took Eugene Sue's Arthur from the reading-room. It's indescribable, enough to make you vomit. You have to read this to realize the pitifulness of money, success, and the public. Literature has become consumptive. It spits and slobbers, covers its blisters with salve and sticking-plaster, and has grown bald from too much hair-slicking. It would take Christ of art to cure this leper.”

Writing Art Enough Reading Literature Christ Realizing Rooms Too Much Hair Cures Spit Arthur Indescribable Leper Plasters Blisters Reading Room

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.”

Literature Rooms Essays Impurity

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Doesn't the theory of relativity concern literature too? In our world there is no longer any room for the privileged observer, as there is none for the observer of the universe - we are all within.”

World Universe Literature Rooms Theory Concern Our World Privileged Observers Relativity Theories Of Relativity

Author:Nina Berberova

“There is no room for the impurities of literature in an essay.... the essay must be pure--pure like water or pure like wine, but pure from dullness, deadness, and deposits of extraneous matter.”

Matter Literature Water Rooms Pure Wine Essays Deposits Dullness Impurity

Book:Selected essays

Source: Selected essays

“Literature is the one place in any society where, within the secrecy of our own heads, we can hear voices talking about everythingin every possible way. The reason for ensuring that that privileged arena is preserved is not that writers want the absolute freedom to say and do whatever they please. It is that we, all of us, readers and writers and citizens and generals and goodmen, need that little, unimportant-looking room. We do not need to call it sacred, but we do need to remember that it is necessary.”

Way Want Needs Littles Reason Remember Literature Voice Rooms Talking Reader Citizens Please Absolutes Sacred Privileged Arena Secrecy Unimportant Absolute Freedom Goodman

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.”

Knows Truth Law Literature Rooms Doubt Honesty Commit Indulge Constructive Indulge In Punishing Yourself

Book:The Law of Success: The 16 Secrets for Achieving Wealth & Prosperity

Source: The Law of Success: The 16 Secrets for Achieving Wealth & Prosperity

“I love the idea of literature as a room or series of rooms that allow you to be present as it slowly unfolds itself in all its capacities.”

Ideas Literature Rooms Capacity Series

Author:Gregory Allen Howard