Jane Smiley Quotes

Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance.

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The essence of charity, he often thought, was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

charity

A bookstore is one of the few places where all the cantankerous, conflicting, alluring voices of the world co-exist in peace and order, and the avid reader is as free as a person can possibly be, because she is free to choose among them.

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