The Human Comedy (1943)

Darryl Hickman: Lionel

Quotes 

• Librarian : What are you boys looking for?

  Lionel : Books.

  Librarian : What books are you looking for?

  Lionel : All of them.

  Librarian : What do you want with them?

  Lionel : We wanna look at em.

  Librarian : Books are for reading.

  Lionel : Can't I just Look at em?

  Librarian : That's not what the public library is for boy, but you can look into them and look at the pictures in them. What do you want the outsides for?

  Lionel : I like to. can't i?

  Librarian : There's no law against it... Who's this?

  Lionel : That's Ulysses. He can't read.

  Librarian : Can you?

  Lionel : No. But he can't either. That's why we're friends, he's the only other man I know who can't read

  Librarian : One day, when you learn to read, you'll find there's a great deal to be said for the inside of books. I've been reading for 70 years and it hasn't been nearly long enough. Now run along and look at the books.

  Lionel : Yes ma'am