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Lawrence Clark Powell [1906-2001] American

Rank: 105
Critic, Author

Lawrence Clark Powell was a librarian, literary critic, bibliographer and author of more than 100 books. Powell "made a significant contribution to the literature of the library profession, but he also writes for the book-minded public.

Age, Brainy, Strength, Technology, Work

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Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.		101
We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.	Age, Technology, Work	102
Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.	Brainy	103
No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.		104
Unless their use by readers bring them to life, books are indeed dead things.		105
What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.		106
To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.	Strength	107

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