[PW] Re: "Libraries will get you through times of no money..." quotation

[Bristol Library]

Many thanks to Fred and Sue!  I felt sure the definitive answer would be
found in YBoQ.  Now if our copy would just arrive. . . .

Jeanne

On 11/28/06, Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
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>
>
> While researching The Yale Book of Quotations, I communicated with Anne
> Herbert about this quote (and her more famous one about "random kindenss
> and senseless acts of beauty").  So I probably got the following
> information from her:
>
> Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will
> get you through times of no libraries.
>         Anne Herbert, Quoted in _The Next Whole Earth Catalog: Access to
> Tools_, ed. Stewart Brand (1980).  Herbert derived this quotation from
> Gilbert Shelton's statement about drugs and money.
>
> Incidentally, it is my supposition that the parent Gilbert Shelton quote
> must itself have been derived from some earlier saying about love or sex
> getting you through times of no money, but I don't know if anyone besides
> me agrees with that supposition.
>
> Fred Shapiro
>
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