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Democracy or reading, democracy of space: our public library tradition, wherever we live in the wide world, was incredibly hard-won for us by the generations before us and ought to be protected, not just for ourselves but in the name of every generation after us.
Democracy or reading, democracy of space: our public library tradition, wherever we live in the wide world, was incredibly hard-won for us by the generations before us and ought to be protected, not just for ourselves but in the name of every generation after us.
Approximate author period: c. 1986 AD · modern
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- Approximate author period: c. 1986 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Ali Smith: documented activity in 1986. Wikidata Q468523, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q468523 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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