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Quotes from Daddy, We Hardly Knew You — Germaine Greer

born 1939 Australia

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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed.

Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989)

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989)

Military mythology has to pretend that real men are in the majority; cowards can never be allowed to feel that they might be the normal ones and the heroes are insane.

Daddy, We Hardly Knew You (1989)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Germaine Greer (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.