A point well made

'It seems so easy now to destroy libraries- mainly by taking away all the books- and to say that books and libraries are not relevant to people's lives. There's a lot of talk about social breakdown and alienation, but how can it be otherwise when our ideas of progress remove the centres that did so much to keep people together?'
  
 Jeanette Winterson.Why be happy when you could be normal?, p.90.