{"author":"E. Norman Torry","author_id":"E.+Norman+Torry","total_quotes":3,"quotes":[{"text":"A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbidden and where such an evil thing as a tax-collector may be forgotten and, peradventure, forgiven.","author":"E. Norman Torry","tags":["bibliophile","libraries","library","reading","tax-collector"],"id":6707,"author_id":"E.+Norman+Torry"},{"text":"After all, when you come across the word prothalamium and find it means a preliminary nuptial song and a yaffle is a green woodpecker-well, I ask you! You cannot let matters rest there-or can you? Peradventure you will develop into lexicomaniacs.","author":"E. Norman Torry","tags":["books","lexicon","words"],"id":140255,"author_id":"E.+Norman+Torry"},{"text":"A fig for your precious society with its bridge parties, its inane chatter, its cheap mentality; its dances and vulgar banquets; its snobbery and cheap pretension. The humblest library can show you upon a single shelf better society and far more select company than all the drawing-rooms of Europe, America, and South Africa.","author":"E. Norman Torry","tags":["bibliomania","libraries","library","pretension","pretensions","society"],"id":384567,"author_id":"E.+Norman+Torry"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":3,"pages":1}}