I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Source:A Literary Legend Fights for a Local Library by Jennifer Steinhauer; in The New York Times (June 19, 2009)
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