Harriet said something very striking yesterday, apropos of Sam W.’s enormous library, that collecting books in that way was “like marrying someone in order to sleep with him.”
True…
Use libraries!!
From Reborn: Journals & Notebooks 1947 - 1963, by Susan Sontag. Picador, page 190. This quotation is from 1958.
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