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Quotes about Library

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A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. Votes: 5

Henry Ward Beecher

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need. Votes: 5

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. Votes: 5

Norman Cousins

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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. Votes: 4

David Mamet

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Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful. Votes: 4

Lil Wayne

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My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library. Votes: 4

Bill Russell

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If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library. Votes: 4

Frank Zappa

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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. Votes: 4

Carl T. Rowan

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The goal for me is to be as expansive as possible, and the Library of Congress offers so many resources. Votes: 4

Juan Felipe Herrera

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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. Votes: 4

Malcolm X

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Libraries are our friends. Votes: 3

Neil Gaiman

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Read in order to live. Votes: 3

Gustave Flaubert

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Your library is your portrait. Votes: 3

Holbrook Jackson

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Library: A place where the dead lie. Votes: 3

Elbert Hubbard

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The Library is a wilderness of books. Votes: 3

Henry David Thoreau

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The Library is the heart of the University. Votes: 3

Charles William Eliot

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A Library goes on as far as thought can reach. Votes: 3

Robertson Davies

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My dream writing room would be the Imperial Library in Vienna. Votes: 3

Fran Lebowitz

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This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library. Votes: 3

John Green

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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four... Votes: 3

Judy Blume

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[The Library of Congress] is a multimedia encyclopedia. These are the tentacles of a nation. Votes: 3

Daniel J. Boorstin

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Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time. Votes: 3

Jimmy Buffett

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The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number of hexagonal galleries. Votes: 3

Jorge Luis Borges

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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick. Votes: 3

Kate Mosse

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Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! Votes: 3

Charles Ogden

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One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library. Votes: 3

Abdul Kalam

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All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library. Votes: 3

Studs Terkel

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Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed. Votes: 3

Anita Brookner

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Each time you admire the faÃ§ade of the New York Public Library, you are paying homage to Western civilization. Votes: 3

Ibn Warraq

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I always carry a pistol when I go [to the New York Public Library]. Never did trust those stone lions. Votes: 3

Robert Bloch

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I'm spending more time at this library in four days than I did at the Eureka College Library in four years. Votes: 3

Ronald Reagan

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When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids. Votes: 3

Dolly Parton

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I always have to go out to work even if it's just a desk somewhere or an office or the British Library. Votes: 3

David Morrissey

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I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer. Votes: 3

Richard Russo

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I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while. Votes: 3

Nadine Dorries

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I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal. Votes: 3

Tom Clancy

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If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books. Votes: 3

Ben Schott

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Nick wanted to meet on campus at Love Library. (That was the actual name; thank you for your donation, Mayor Don Lathrop Love.) Votes: 3

Rainbow Rowell

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I know I'm representing the Library of Congress, all the people of the United States and, of course, the Latinos and Latinas as well. Votes: 3

Juan Felipe Herrera

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A School Library is Like the Bat Cave: it's a safe fortress in a chaotic world, a source of knowledge and the lair of a superhero. Votes: 3

Tom Angleberger

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A library is thought in cold storage. Votes: 2

Herbert Samuel

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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure. Votes: 2

Arthur Baer

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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. Votes: 2

Alexander Smith

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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. Votes: 2

Ray Bradbury

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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. Votes: 2

Jorge Luis Borges

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When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. Votes: 2

Rita Mae Brown

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Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one. Votes: 2

Augustine Birrell

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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians. Votes: 2

Warren Buffett

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Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing. Votes: 2

Harper Lee

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Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom. Votes: 2

Willard Scott

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When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world. Votes: 2

John Goodman

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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. Votes: 2

Lady Bird Johnson

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First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library. Votes: 2

Charles Bukowski

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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. Votes: 2

Aphra Behn

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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. Votes: 2

Andrew Carnegie

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Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library. Votes: 2

Jerzy Kosinski

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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. Votes: 2

Germaine Greer

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I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face. Votes: 2

Rodney Dangerfield

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The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, has been replaced by the computer's cheap glow, pesky chirp, and data spillage. Votes: 2

P. J. O'Rourke

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I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go beyond the school curriculum and look for books I might enjoy. Votes: 2

Malala Yousafzai

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When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. Votes: 2

Keith Richards

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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself. Votes: 2

Isaac Asimov

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There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration. Votes: 2

Andrew Carnegie

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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships. Votes: 2

Gary Vaynerchuk

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I have an extensive library - every birthday when I was a kid my parents would ask what movie or book I wanted, so I have built up a big collection over the years. Votes: 2

Mark Bridges

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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. Votes: 2

Laura Bush

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. Votes: 2

Mark Twain

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I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library. Votes: 2

Rick Riordan

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I don't really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in the library, in a cafe, back to the library, that kind of thing. Votes: 2

Steve Toltz

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Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital. Votes: 2

Thomas Jefferson

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My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't even have a radio - I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered I was reading and enjoying what I read. Votes: 2

Beverly Cleary

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I grew up in the 'hood around prostitutes, drug dealers, killers, and gangbangers, but I also grew up juxtaposed: On the doorknob outside of our apartment, there was blood from some guy who got shot; but inside, there was National Geographic magazines and encyclopedias and a little library bookshelf situation. Votes: 2

Lupe Fiasco

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On a very personal level, I have fond memories of spending a lot of time in the Library of Congress working on my collection of poems 'Native Guard.' I was there over a summer doing research in the archives and then writing in the reading room at the Jefferson building. Votes: 2

Natasha Trethewey

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I'd written a thousand stories. Votes: 2

Ray Bradbury

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My store, Wine Library, outsells big national chains. How do you think we do it? It started with hustle. I always say that our success wasn't due to my hundreds of online videos about wine that went viral, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships. Votes: 2

Gary Vaynerchuk

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I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. Votes: 2

Maya Angelou

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We never had books at home, but my dad, seeing how keen I was to read, took me to Islington Library when I was about eight and we pulled out two - a Biggles and a science fiction novel. I never got the ace fighter pilot but fell in love with all things to do with the future and space. Isaac Asimov soon became my guiding star. Votes: 2

Gary Kemp

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A library is a growing organism. Votes: 1

S.R. Ranganathan

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A library book, I imagine, is a happy book. Votes: 1

Cornelia Funke

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Access to a school library results in more reading. Votes: 1

Stephen D. Krashen

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Your library is your paradise. Votes: 0

Desiderius Erasmus

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Every library is an arsenal. Votes: 0

Robert Green Ingersoll

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Freedom is a public library. Votes: 0

Paula Fox

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The library is my cathedral. Votes: 0

Barbara Bretton

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I am a public library Votes: 0

Tony Benn

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More people should use their library. Votes: 0

Regis Philbin

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library is a beautiful old thing Votes: 0

Elizabeth Gilbert

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The library is the mathematician's laboratory. Votes: 0

Paul Halmos

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Dear me, how I love a library. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Gilbert

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Without the library, you have no civilization. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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A library is a palace of dreams. Votes: 0

M.C. Beaton

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Don't forget to support your public library. Votes: 0

Bob Dylan

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My library is filled with UN condemnations. Votes: 0

Augusto Pinochet

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Each time someone dies, a library burns. Votes: 0

Jandy Nelson

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The public library is the great equaliser. Votes: 0

Keith Richards

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The library is the temple of learning. Votes: 0

Carl T. Rowan

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A library is thought in cold storage. Votes: 0

Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel

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When in doubt, go to the library. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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A library implies an act of faith. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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My library is an archive of longings. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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A library is infinity under a roof. Votes: 0

Gail Carson Levine

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My alma mater was books, a good library. Votes: 0

Malcolm X

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Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library. Votes: 0

George Henry Lewes

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Nothing is more impotent than an unread library. Votes: 0

John Waters

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We find paradise in every library and bookshop. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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A library is the door to many lives. Votes: 0

Sharon Creech

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The studious silence of the library ... Tranquil brightness. Votes: 0

James Joyce

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I'd best head to the library. Research beckons. Votes: 0

Rupert Giles

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Death is an ascension to a better library. Votes: 0

John Donne

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I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. Votes: 0

John le Carre

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Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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The most beautiful people are all in the library. Votes: 0

Caroline Kennedy

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Elisabeth Marbury

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The public library is where place and possibility meet. Votes: 0

Stuart Dybek

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Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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The best place to find things: the public library. Votes: 0

Edward Bernays

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A library is a fueling station for your mind. Votes: 0

Steve Leveen

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Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation. Votes: 0

Stephen D. Krashen

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There is no problem a library card can't solve. Votes: 0

Eleanor Brown

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The Web is cool, but the library is magic. Votes: 0

Arthur Plotnik

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A library is also a place where love begins. Votes: 0

Rudolfo Anaya

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Yo Mama's like a library, open to the public. Votes: 0

Oliver Oliver Reed

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Every death is like the burning of a library. Votes: 0

Alex Haley

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Affliction is the best book in a minister's library. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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I spent my life in the library reading books. Votes: 0

Michael Caine

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What better place to kill time than a library? Votes: 0

Diane Setterfield

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The public library is the most dangerous place in town Votes: 0

John Ciardi

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At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices. Votes: 0

Alberto Manguel

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A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window. Votes: 0

Stewart Brand

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The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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A library is an adjustable wrench for opening the head. Votes: 0

Matthew Tobin Anderson

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You can't have a great university without a great library. Votes: 0

Joe Paterno

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A great library contains the diary of the human race. Votes: 0

Geraldine Dawson

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Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card. Votes: 0

Marc Brown

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A library is a path to the future--find yours there. Votes: 0

Mary Higgins Clark

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Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library. Votes: 0

Walter Savage Landor

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A library is a room where the murders take place. Votes: 0

J. B. Morton

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I counsel thee, shut not thy heart, nor thy library. Votes: 0

Charles Lamb

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I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks. Votes: 0

Luanne Rice

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A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure. Votes: 0

Lilian Jackson Braun

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During the day, the library is a realm of order. Votes: 0

Alberto Manguel

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Why buy a book when you can join a library? Votes: 0

Ricky Gervais

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Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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A library is all the university you will ever need. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. Votes: 0

Alberto Manguel

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Every old man that dies is a library that burns. Votes: 0

Amadou Hampate Ba

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I've got my library card and i'm checking you out! Votes: 0

Joe Jonas

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A library should be like a pair of open arms. Votes: 0

Roger Rosenblatt

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Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card."[Arthur] Votes: 0

PBS Kids

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A scholar is just a library's way of making another library. Votes: 0

Daniel Dennett

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A library is a place full of mouth-watering food for thought. Votes: 0

Diana Wynne Jones

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A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions. Votes: 0

Roy Blount, Jr.

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A library is a gateway to others' minds, hearts, and lives. Votes: 0

Tamora Pierce

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Please bury me in the library With a dozen long-stemmed proses Votes: 0

J. Patrick Lewis

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they should let some people into the library by prescription only Votes: 0

Chuck Palahniuk

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A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love. Votes: 0

Augustine Birrell

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The standard library saves programmers from having to reinvent the wheel. Votes: 0

Bjarne Stroustrup

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I taught myself more in the library than school taught me. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. Votes: 0

Luther Standing Bear

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A library is where you meet fascinating characters you never forget. Votes: 0

Judy Blume

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People are living books. The real library of life is community. Votes: 0

Bryant H. McGill

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Whoever first thought of imposing a library fine was indeed intelligent. Votes: 0

Mu Xin

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Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Votes: 0

Thomas Lovejoy

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All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library. Votes: 0

Rivera Sun

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What harbor can receive you more securely than a great library? Votes: 0

Italo Calvino

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The library is like a candy store where everything is free. Votes: 0

Jamie Ford

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A house that has a library in it has a soul. Votes: 0

Plato

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The function of a great library is to store obscure books. Votes: 0

Nicholson Baker

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In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning. Votes: 0

Amadou Hampate Ba

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[Describing his house:] It is a library with living rooms attached. Votes: 0

Bernard Berenson

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You can judge a man by the books in his library. Votes: 0

Mark Skousen

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A library is a feast to which we are all invited. Votes: 0

Katherine Paterson

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I never went to college, so I went to the library. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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No use going to class unless you go to the library. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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When all else fails, give up and go to the library. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground. Votes: 0

Chinua Achebe

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He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Some men have only one book in them, others a library. Votes: 0

Sydney Smith

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The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. Votes: 0

Henry Rollins

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Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. Votes: 0

Barbara Tuchman

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My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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Oh. My. God. They were fighting. In the library. Over her. Votes: 0

Lauren Kate

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A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library. Votes: 0

Shelby Foote

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I'd have opened a bloody library if I'd wanted to be quiet. Votes: 0

Anita Roddick

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As a child I spent a lot of time at the library. Votes: 0

Tracy Chapman

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Are you in a library or what?! (on the crowd being quiet) Votes: 0

Stuart Pearce

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If your library is not 'unsafe', it probably isn't doing its job. Votes: 0

John Berry

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Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down. Votes: 0

Alex Haley

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A completely free library is as rare as a truly free lunch. Votes: 0

Tom Peters

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I fall in love with any girl who smells of library paste. Votes: 0

Charles M. Schulz

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A man will turn over half a library to make one book. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship. Votes: 0

Oprah Winfrey

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A good library at home is a giant empire inside the house. Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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The library is what keeps us a step ahead of the apes. Votes: 0

Dana Stabenow

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A library is a hospital for the mind.â - Anonymous Votes: 0

Alvin Toffler

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Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library. Votes: 0

Laura Bush

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A library could show you everything if you knew where to look. Votes: 0

Pat Conroy

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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. Votes: 0

Alan Bennett

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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing. Votes: 0

Bill Gates

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The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself. Votes: 0

Alberto Manguel

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My first job was as an assistant in the local library. Self-fulfilling prophecy? Votes: 0

Jodi Picoult

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I walked straight to the library. Mrs. Bloom, the librarian, always knows everything. Votes: 0

Augusta Scattergood

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Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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It was the kind of library he had only read about in books. Votes: 0

Alan Bennett

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A city without books, a city without a library is like a graveyard. Votes: 0

Malala Yousafzai

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I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those Votes: 0

Iain Banks

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You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Kostova

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The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history. Votes: 0

Daniel Handler

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The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history. Votes: 0

Lemony Snicket

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Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down. Votes: 0

Mark Plotkin

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I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library. Votes: 0

Jennifer Estep

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It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Kostova

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I saw you in the library. Withââ â Colonel Mustard? Votes: 0

Cassandra Clare

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I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK. Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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Above all I commend the study of Christ. Let Him be your library. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. Votes: 0

Tony Benn

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You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books. Votes: 0

Joanna Trollope

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The library, to me, is the second most sacred physical space on the planet. Votes: 0

Nikky Finney

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But what can a man see of a library being one day in it? Votes: 0

James Boswell

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In my garden I spend my days; in my library I spend my nights. Votes: 0

Alexander Smith

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I'll tell you what's more important than all the commentaries in your library: prayer. Votes: 0

Mark Dever

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Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians. Votes: 0

Richard Scarry

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The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next. Votes: 0

John Cotton Dana

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One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library.. Votes: 0

bell hooks

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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed. Votes: 0

Germaine Greer

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A circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge. Votes: 0

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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People of all demographic categories and geographic regions will access a good digital library. Votes: 0

Tom Peters

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Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion. Votes: 0

Alberto Manguel

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A library is where ideas sleep between covers, waiting for you to discover them. Votes: 0

Lois Ehlert

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There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. Votes: 0

Lois McMaster Bujold

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To add a library to a house is to give that house a soul. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The greatest knowledge a person can possess is the address of the local library. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Anyone who has got a book collection/library and a garden wants for nothing. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world! Votes: 0

Steven Moffat

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I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card. Votes: 0

Laura Bush

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A library is but the soul's burying ground. It is a land of shadows. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night. Votes: 0

Isabel Allende

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A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library Votes: 0

Maya Angelou

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But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. Votes: 0

Andrew Wiles

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If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library. Votes: 0

John Kenneth Galbraith

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To know a man's library is, in some measure, to know a man's mind. Votes: 0

Geraldine Brooks

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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. Votes: 0

Cornelia Funke

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I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself. Votes: 0

Maggie Stiefvater

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Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb! Votes: 0

George MacDonald

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Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service. Votes: 0

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem. Votes: 0

John Braine

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Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul. Votes: 0

Diodorus Siculus

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Why can't I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system! Votes: 0

Vera Brosgol

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The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul. Votes: 0

Kurt Vonnegut

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Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. Votes: 0

Desiderius Erasmus

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Rumi is astounding, fertile, abundant, almost more an excitable library of poetry than a person. Votes: 0

Robert Bly

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My great-grandfather was a self-taught man, and his library was extraordinary. I read the lot. Votes: 0

Alan Garner

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Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume. Votes: 0

Nathaniel Parker Willis

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A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. Votes: 0

Germaine Greer

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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. Votes: 0

John Lubbock

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The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. Votes: 0

Walter Wager

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A library is the first step of a thousand journeys, portal to a thousand worlds. Votes: 0

Orson Scott Card

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I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing. Votes: 0

Sara Sheridan

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He that revels in a well-chosen library has inumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavor. Votes: 0

William Godwin

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If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? Votes: 0

Lily Tomlin

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No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card. Votes: 0

Joan Rivers

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I'm a nerd. I like to sit in the library. I don't like to sweat. Votes: 0

John Amaechi

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It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library. Votes: 0

John D'Agata

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A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. Votes: 0

Alan M. Dershowitz

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A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you. Votes: 0

Alan Dershowitz

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The library isâ¦a university of the people, from which the students are never graduated. Votes: 0

Katharine Sharp

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When a library is open, no matter its size or shape, democracy is open, too. Votes: 0

Bill Moyers

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An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them. Votes: 0

Stephen Fry

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Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. Votes: 0

Peter Singer

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Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore. Votes: 0

Benjamin Carson

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You get all sorts of people in the library, and the librarian gets it all... Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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My very identities as a reader and a writer began at the Walt Whitman branch library. Votes: 0

Paula Spencer

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Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

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The study of the Bible is a post-graduate course in the richest library of human experience. Votes: 0

Herbert Hoover

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There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment. Votes: 0

Alisa Valdes

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Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. Votes: 0

Stephen King

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Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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Order and surprise: these are two intertwined elements that make for any great library or collection. Votes: 0

Michael Dirda

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People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there. Votes: 0

Robert D. Putnam

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His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss. Votes: 0

Charlotte Bronte

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When I step into this library, I cannot understand why I ever step out of it. Votes: 0

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne

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Maybe Heaven will be a library. Then I will be able to finish my to-read list. Votes: 0

Kellie Elmore

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What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education. Votes: 0

Harold Howe

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If beauty is truth, why don't women go to the library to have their hair done? Votes: 0

Lily Tomlin

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I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it. Votes: 0

David Foster Wallace

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I spent more time at the library than anyone my age when I was a kid. Votes: 0

Dave Sitek

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My pen is my harp and my lyre; my library is my garden and my orchard. Votes: 0

Judah Halevi

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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down. Votes: 0

Mark Plotkin

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One day she's throwing a book at me. The next, we're making out behind the library. Votes: 0

Richelle Mead

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The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. Votes: 0

John Allen Paulos

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I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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The first time I walked into a library, I got so excited I almost wet my pants. Votes: 0

Roy Blount, Jr.

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So I spend a lot of time at the library. That doesn't mean I'm a massive nerd! Votes: 0

Fabian

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Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, nihil deeritHe who has a garden and a library wants for nothing Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Questioners sooner or later end up in a library... And answers are dangerous; they kill your wonder. Votes: 0

Rajneesh

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CLARE: The library is cool and smells like carpet cleaner, although all I can see is marble. Votes: 0

Audrey Niffenegger

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As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books. Votes: 0

Cheech Marin

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Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there... Votes: 0

Barbara Pym

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Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads. Votes: 0

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Then I started checking out blues albums from the library and playing the harp along with them. Votes: 0

John Goodman

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The closest you will ever come in this life to an orderly universe is a good library. Votes: 0

Ashleigh Brilliant

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Believe me, the library is the temple of God. Education is the most sacred religion of all. Votes: 0

Gene Simmons

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The library helps lower- and middle-income people - immigrants - get their shot at the American dream. Votes: 0

Stephen A. Schwarzman

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Some folklorists just collected dead bones from one graveyard, only to bury them in another, their library. Votes: 0

Pete Seeger

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With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer. Votes: 0

Daniel Handler

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It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. Votes: 0

Robert Darnton

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One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments. Votes: 0

Vance Havner

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Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library. Votes: 0

Reif Larsen

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What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists. Votes: 0

Archibald MacLeish

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A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library. Votes: 0

Frank Westheimer

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A library represents the mind of its collector, fancies and foibles, strengths and weaknesses, prejudices and preferences. Votes: 0

William Osler

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I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these." - Mr. Darcy Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession. Votes: 0

John Bright

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I know exactly what I would do with immortality: I would read every book in the library. Votes: 0

Mark Jason Dominus

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During my long study sessions in the library, I found myself watching YouTube videos during study breaks. Votes: 0

Ray William Johnson

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To arrange a library is to practice in a quiet and modest way the art of criticism. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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One of the great advantages ofhaving a library,your eminence,is that it is full of books. Votes: 0

Michael Hirst

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Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book. Votes: 0

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. Votes: 0

Richard K. Morgan

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Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. Votes: 0

Nora Roberts

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Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. Votes: 0

Roger Ebert

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A great library is one nobody notices because it is always there, and always has what people need. Votes: 0

Vicki Myron

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I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet. Votes: 0

Shmuel Niger

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There are probably a few library fines I haven't paid yet, but I'm a pretty clean-cut guy overall. Votes: 0

Al Yankovic

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I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders. Votes: 0

Mark Foley

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For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. Votes: 0

Pete Hamill

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A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles. Votes: 0

Umberto Eco

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You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything! Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library. Votes: 0

Louis Nizer

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I won't be sad too often, If they bury me in the library With bookworms in my coffin. Votes: 0

J. Patrick Lewis

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If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books. Votes: 0

Mark Pryor

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I got kicked out in grade school because I staged a riot because I wanted more library time. Votes: 0

Bitsie Tulloch

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...better a live bird in the jungle of the body than two stuffed birds on the library table. Votes: 0

Nathanael West

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I admit that I haven't read everything in my library, but I feel smarter just walking in it! Votes: 0

Jim Rohn

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A man may debar nonsense from his library of reason, but not from the arena of his impulses. Votes: 0

Rex Stout

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The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world. Votes: 0

Luis Valdez

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If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library, Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books. Votes: 0

Audrey Niffenegger

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I want to know how the hell you managed to locate that hideout using the damn public library. Votes: 0

Richard Castle

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Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness. Votes: 0

Lionel Johnson

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One of the most constant and sustaining truths of my life has been this: I love the library. Votes: 0

Deb Caletti

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You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple. Votes: 0

Anthony de Mello

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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library. Votes: 0

Henri Frederic Amiel

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Call me a schoolmarm, but few things make me angrier than people not taking good care of library materials. Votes: 0

Tim Gunn

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With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities. Votes: 0

Bill Gates

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... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker. Votes: 0

Carolyn Wells

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The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card. Votes: 0

E. L. Doctorow

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If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world? Votes: 0

Joan Bauer

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I've been cataloguing samples for years, I have this massive library. Songs come out everyday so it's never ending. Votes: 0

Girl Talk

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Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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At the end of it all, it's my little movie library, and you see aspects of me through that. Votes: 0

Milla Jovovich

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A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams. Votes: 0

Anne Perry

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When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. Votes: 0

Mark Ruffalo

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Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory. Votes: 0

John William Strutt

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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential. Votes: 0

Zadie Smith

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Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers. Votes: 0

Diana Gabaldon

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Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me. Votes: 0

Bob Hope

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Here's my library, where I don't do a lot of reading but mostly play Angry Birds on the computer. Votes: 0

J. Lynn

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Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library. Votes: 0

Nicholson Baker

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The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it. Votes: 0

Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood

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You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it. Votes: 0

Rush Limbaugh

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He had been so busy getting away from the library, he hadn't paid attention to where he was going. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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I feel that people spend as much time skipping songs as they do listening to them in their library. Votes: 0

Jacob Bannon

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library. Votes: 0

Bill Cosby

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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."(Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.) Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. Votes: 0

Jane Austen

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Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. Votes: 0

John Quincy Adams

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Like many science fiction lovers of my generation, I discovered Andre Norton on the shelves at the junior high's library. Votes: 0

Sherwood Smith

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The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. Votes: 0

Anne Rice

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You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. Votes: 0

Ben Affleck

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Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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She regarded books as the emblems of secret brotherhood. A man with this sort of library couldn't possibly hurt her. Votes: 0

Milan Kundera

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The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. Votes: 0

Samuel Davies

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Your intelligence often bears the same relation to your heart as the library of a chateau does to its owner. Votes: 0

Nicolas Chamfort

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If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. Votes: 0

David Harsanyi

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I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground. Votes: 0

Jandy Nelson

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The biggest thing I did was that I used to go to the library. I fed my mind every day. Votes: 0

Tony Robbins

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The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired. Votes: 0

Milton Berle

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I spent all my time at school in the library. Bad teachers can teach you to learn on your own. Votes: 0

Gregory Colbert

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The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world. Votes: 0

Rita Dove

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The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings. Votes: 0

Pete Hamill

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If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen. Votes: 0

Roger Rosenblatt

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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. Votes: 0

Beverly Cleary

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Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. Votes: 0

Alberto Manguel

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I wouldnât be the person I am today if it wasnât for the opportunities the library gave me. Votes: 0

Alan Moore

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Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life. Votes: 0

Tove Ditlevsen

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The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers. Votes: 0

Anita Anand

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I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink. Votes: 0

Pete McCarthy

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I know that I am a small, weak man, but I have amassed a large library; I dream of dangerous places. Votes: 0

Terry Pratchett

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The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks. Votes: 0

Michael Dirda

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..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you. Votes: 0

Elie Wiesel

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My father was in the Army and we moved around a lot, and one of my favorite places was the library. Votes: 0

Suzan-Lori Parks

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A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. Votes: 0

Doris Lessing

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It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library. Votes: 0

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses. Votes: 0

Robert Mayer

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The public library is more than a repository of books. It's a mysterious, wondrous place with the power to change lives. Votes: 0

Elizabeth Taylor

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An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository. Votes: 0

Marian Seldes

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There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings. Votes: 0

Alexandra Adornetto

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With the scale of our traffic, content library and monetization ability, we are confident to see profitable growth in the future. Votes: 0

Victor Koo

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I feel I want to be wise with white hair in a tall library in a deep chair by a fireplace. Votes: 0

Gregory Corso

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In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple. Votes: 0

Jean-Paul Sartre

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To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me. Votes: 0

Jonathan Taylor Thomas

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It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library. Votes: 0

Lorrie Moore

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The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. Votes: 0

Lynda Barry

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As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it. Votes: 0

Sam Ewing

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One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library. Votes: 0

Terence McKenna

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A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. Votes: 0

Caitlin Moran

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Ms Rainn, when was the last time you visited a library for the books and not the free Internet it offers? Votes: 0

S.A. Tawks

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... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump. Votes: 0

Edith Wharton

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Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month? Votes: 0

Frank Westheimer

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A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man's history. It is a man's duty to have books. Votes: 0

Henry Ward Beecher

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In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them. Votes: 0

Jack Kemp

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A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Votes: 0

Richard de Bury

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You can take the girl out of the library, but you can't take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl. Votes: 0

Molly Harper

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When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there. Votes: 0

S.A. Tawks

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I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. Votes: 0

Barbara Kingsolver

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The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity. Votes: 0

Vartan Gregorian

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The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas. Votes: 0

Maira Kalman

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Oh, of course," said Ron, clapping a hand to his forehead. "I forgot we'll be hunting down Voldemort in a mobile library. Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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I am hard-pressed to find a successful writer who doesn't have a similar story to mine - transformation through the public library. Votes: 0

Karin Slaughter

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It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd. Votes: 0

Penelope Lively

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I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy! Votes: 0

Jacqueline Susann

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Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity. Votes: 0

William Osler

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I remember going to a monastery library when I was very young and being surrounded by ancient books. I fell in love. Votes: 0

Hans-Ulrich Obrist

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When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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My alma mater was books, a good library - I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity Votes: 0

Malcolm X

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Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don't think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher. Votes: 0

Sharon M. Draper

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You can spend a day in a library and feel: 'Great, I've done a day's work.' But it's only research, not writing. Votes: 0

Richard Flanagan

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Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out. Votes: 0

Joan Collins

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She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west. Votes: 0

Thomas Pynchon

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They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind. Votes: 0

Daniel Handler

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I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time. Votes: 0

Claire Danes

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All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. Votes: 0

Swami Vivekananda

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Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library. Votes: 0

Michael Caine

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Yo, que me figuraba el ParaÃso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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A library is a platform upon which we catch trains to Every Where and Any Place, Another Time and Across Space. All aboard! Votes: 0

Esme Raji Codell

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Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead. Votes: 0

Eric Idle

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A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it. Votes: 0

Christopher Morley

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I wished I could take her to the library and hand her over to the librarians. Please teach her about everything, I'd say. Votes: 0

A.S. King

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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too that part of the pleasure of a library lies in its very existence. Votes: 0

Jan Morris

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A library is never complete. Thatâs the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection. Votes: 0

Catherynne M. Valente

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Fame is fickle. If the media turn against me, I will just have more time in the library. Not bad as a fate. Votes: 0

Mary Beard

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I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything. Votes: 0

Gary D. Schmidt

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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't. Votes: 0

Carolyn Wells

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I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to. Votes: 0

Nipsey Hussle

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I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer. Votes: 0

Bill Gates

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I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future. Votes: 0

Luke Mably

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I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library. Votes: 0

Vijay Seshadri

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I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk. Votes: 0

Chelsea Cain

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I was in a convenience store, reading a magazine. The clerk told me, "this is not a library!" "OK! I will talk louder, then!" Votes: 0

Mitch Hedberg

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In fact, of course, there is no secret knowledge; no one knows anything that can't be found on a shelf in the public library. Votes: 0

Daniel Quinn

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The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder. Votes: 0

Elizabeth McCracken

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Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book. Votes: 0

Groucho Marx

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But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read. Votes: 0

Jorge Luis Borges

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In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted. Votes: 0

Beverly Cleary

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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me. Votes: 0

Anatole France

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I want all my stuff to be converted into digital format so I can have my reference library to carry with me wherever I go. Votes: 0

Jim Lee

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My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader! Votes: 0

Tess Gerritsen

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I was born an only child in Vienna, Austria. My father found hours to sit by me by the library fire and tell fairy stories. Votes: 0

Hedy Lamarr

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Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home. Votes: 0

Janet Fitch

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A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered Votes: 0

E. B. White

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Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours. Votes: 0

David Baldacci

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If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids. Votes: 0

Cornelia Funke

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To have your whole music library with you at all times is a quantum leap in listening to music. How do we possibly do this? Votes: 0

Steve Jobs

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I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild boredom of order. Votes: 0

Walter Benjamin

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He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing. Votes: 0

Neil Gaiman

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If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be. Votes: 0

Alberto Manguel

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If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library. Votes: 0

Mason Cooley

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When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know. Votes: 0

Laura Bush

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Oxford is wonderful. I'm having a great time. We do go out, but I still try to spend most of my time studying in the library. Votes: 0

Chelsea Clinton

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The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards. Votes: 0

John Grisham

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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books. Votes: 0

Tom T. Hall

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Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. Votes: 0

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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A big island of library, in the middle of an ocean, away from all the fools of the world, would this place not be a real paradise? Votes: 0

Mehmet Murat ildan

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You're a library of me.

Zadie Smith

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A man's library is a sort of harem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

Alberto Manguel

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...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

Louisa May Alcott

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Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.

Robin Sloan

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To make a library It takes two volumes And a fire. Two volumes and a fire, And interest. The interest alone will do If logs are few.

Carolyn Wells

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Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

Nick Flynn

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A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today.

Stephen King

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I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

Tim Gunn

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One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.

Blake Mycoskie

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One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.

Connie Willis

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For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to take him.

William Osler

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It's nice to live in a country that has its priorities straight: the library's open three hours a week, and the House of Fist is 24/7.

Dana Gould

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Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

Nikola Tesla

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I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.

Tom Stoppard

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They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

Christopher Morley

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The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

Samuel Smiles

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You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

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The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

Vartan Gregorian

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The Country is both the Philosopher's Garden and his Library, in which he Reads and Contemplates the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God.

William Penn

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A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

Stephen Fry

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The dog always dies. Go to the library and pick out a book with an award sticker and a dog on the cover. Trust me, that dog is going down.

Gordon Korman

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What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn't imagine it if it weren't real somewhere, sometime.

Terence McKenna

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I find that when I come out of the library I'm in what I call the library bliss of being totally taken away from the distractions of life.

Tracy Chevalier

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Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress

Mira Grant

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He said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library. I thought, "That's a turn-up for the books".

Tommy Cooper

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I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book.

Bill Bryson

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[T]he public library is where those without money, power, access, university affiliation, or advanced degrees can get information for free..

Siva Vaidhyanathan

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Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

Joanne Harris

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Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

Leo Tolstoy

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To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.

Dan Brown

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They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

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The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

Daniel Handler

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The intelligent and efficient politician is a species virtually unknown in the galaxy. Perhaps I might secure a scraping [for my] cell library.

George R. R. Martin

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All of the life-changing awesome words and pictures and ideas inside your library are useless without just one word outside your library: Open.

Mo Willems

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You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

Ray Bradbury

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The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

Henry James

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When we build a public library, we don't have to pay to get in, but when we build a stadium, we have to pay the owner every time we go to a game.

Jesse Ventura

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A deserted library in the morning - there's something about it that really gets to me. All possible words and ideas are there, resting peacefully.

Haruki Murakami

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I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.

Jeanette Winterson

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Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

Laurel Lea

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When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

Piers Anthony

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This is why I can't be with Levi. Because I'm the kind of girl who fantasizes about being trapped in a library overnight-and Levi can't even read.

Rainbow Rowell

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Thing is, I wasn't in the library, didn't study too much, didn't get the best grades, but honestly, I didn't party a lot either. I stayed in a lot.

G-Eazy

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Every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, "The world is quiet here," as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good.

Daniel Handler

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I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

Alberto Manguel

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Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Filmmaker John Waters has said, "Nothing is more important than an unread library."

Austin Kleon

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AT first Raoden stayed away from the library, because it reminded him of her. Then he found himself drawn back to itâbecause it reminded him of her.

Brandon Sanderson

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Usage tends to be global, while funding tends tobe local. When we allow it to happen, usage of a digital library is remarkably diverse and widespread.

Tom Peters

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It should be possible, in a 'debreviation' mode, to type 'clr' on the keyboard and have 'The Council on Library Resources, Inc.' appear on the display.

J. C. R. Licklider

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How precious a book is in light of the offering, in the light of the one who has the privilege of this offering. The library tells you of this offering

Louis Kahn

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There must be every kind of books in your library. The most beautiful gardens are those with many different flowers, with all kinds of herbs and weeds!

Mehmet Murat ildan

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I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack."

Michael Scott

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A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

Daniel Handler

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Here's another piece of advice, only date people who have read a different set of books than you have read, it will save you lots of time in the library.

Tony Kushner

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Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves.

Donalyn Miller

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The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

Herman Wouk

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How we use the knowledge we gain determines our progress on earth, in space or on the moon. Your library is a storehouse for mind and spirit. Use it well.

Neil Armstrong

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And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party in the library that need never, ever end.

Caitlin Moran

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I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

Patrick Carman

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With all the things I know, one could write a book... Although, one might also say that, considering all that I don't know, one could create a library.

Sacha Guitry

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Whole libraries can be filled with the papers written about cancer and its causes, but the contents of these papers fit on one little library visiting card.

August Bier

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After years and years of accumulating papers, I keep feeling that I should give them to the library or something because they are beginning to overwhelm me.

Jennifer Tipton

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She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.

Nicholas Sparks

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...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.

Deb Caletti

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Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many.

Seneca the Younger

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At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better

Barack Obama

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We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out.

Dean Koontz

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Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

Marisha Pessl

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I was the kind of kid whose parents would drop him off at the local town library on their way to work, and I'd go and work my way through the children's area.

Neil Gaiman

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Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?

Ayn Rand

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Sure.â Olivia smirked. âGood olâ New York Public Library. Iâm sure itâs up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates.

Cheyenne McCray

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When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

Daniel Handler

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Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

Stuart Dybek

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There are so many items that are not in the copyright domain. And people might not realize the Library of Congress manages the copyright process for the nation.

Carla Hayden

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I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, I suppose. Browsing through someone's library is like peeking into their DNA.

Guillermo del Toro

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For me, books have been a life-long resource-to learning, laughter, solace, excitement, inspiration. At your library, the world awaits you, free for the asking.

Lady Bird Johnson

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You can go into the Library of Congress and find information on just about anything, but that doesn't do you much good unless you know what you are looking for.

Noam Chomsky

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I have my library separate from the family home, and every room is a different genre. The only room that I can guarantee I've read everything is the horror room.

Guillermo del Toro

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Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book.

Terry Pratchett

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I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.

Maggie Stiefvater

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The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

Vartan Gregorian

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the theater should be free to the people just as the Public Library is free, just as the museum is free. ... I want the theater to be made accessible to the people.

Eva Le Gallienne

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I took to the Bodleian library as to a lover and ... would sit long hours in Bodley's arms to emerge, blinking and dazed with the small and feel of all those books.

Laurie R. King

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You're always in the kitchen," Alianora said when she poked her head through the door a moment later. "Or the library. Don't you ever do anything but cook and read?

Patricia C. Wrede

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Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

Robert A. Heinlein

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In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.

Bill Harley

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Every library answers a twofold need, which is often also a twofold obsession: that of conserving certain objects (books) and that of organizing them in certain ways

Georges Perec

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Oh God. Why, oh why, did I have to be the one to deliver this news? Why couldn't I be locked away in my room or the library doing something enjoyable, like homework?

Richelle Mead

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What was it with people always trying to kill me in the library? Nickamedes so needed to put up warning signs. Danger: Working here could be hazardous to your health.

Jennifer Estep

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Books were not looked upon as things unobtainable due to economic circumstances or class status. My grandfather stole an entire set of Dicken's from the local library.

Bob Hartley

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I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library " they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces

Helen McCrory

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My childhood library was small enough not to be intimidating. And yet I felt the whole world was contained in those two rooms. I could walk any aisle and smell wisdom.

Rita Dove

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The dog was cold and in pain. But being only a dog it did not occur to him to trot off home to the comfort of the library fire and leave his master to fend for himself.

Albert Payson Terhune

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I used to go to the library all the time when I was kid. As a teenager, I got a book on how to write jokes at the library, and that, in turn, launched my comedy career.

Drew Carey

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In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense.

Jorge Luis Borges

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The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.

Amy Bloom

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I hate requests. They make me feel unhappy. It's like when I take a book out of the library. As soon as I start to read it, all I can think about is when I'll finish it.

Haruki Murakami

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As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns.

Stephen King

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Seduced her? Every time I turned round she was up a library ladder. In the end I gave in. That reminds meI spotted something between her legs that made me think of you.

Tom Stoppard

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I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.

Alex Haley

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The national school is not a lecture hall or a library. Its schooling consists chiefly in experimental collective action aimed at the realization of a collective purpose.

Herbert Croly

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Ranganathan's 5 Laws: Books are for use. Books are for all. Every book its reader, or every reader his book. Save the time of the reader. A library is a growing organism.

S.R. Ranganathan

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As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

Alan Bradley

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Sometimes when I'm in a bookstore or library, I am overwhelmed by all the things that I do not know. Then I am seized by a powerful desire to read all the books, one by one.

Arthur C. Clarke

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Yesterday all five living presidents gathered for the opening of the George W. Bush presidential library in Dallas. Well, six living presidents if you count Hillary in 2016.

Jay Leno

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The Bible is actually a library of books-some long, some short- written over hundreds of years by many authors. Behind each one, however, was [the] Author: the Spirit of God.

Billy Graham

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I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.

Concha Buika

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I went to Europe to live in 1961. I'd never have written Julian if it hadn't been for the sequestered life that I led in Rome and the classical library at the America Academy.

Gore Vidal

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Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I'm always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names.

George R. R. Martin

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Nikki Giovanni! I got a book of hers from the library, and there was this woman who could paint me on paper with words - my whole little experience. I thought it was wonderful.

Jill Scott

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[General James Mattis] a very talented individual. He's - has a personal library of about 10,000 books and he's read most of them on military history and strategy and so forth.

Peter R. Mansoor

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You can't flood the market with every TV show, every reality show, and dump your library into the market all at one time and not have some kind of game plan in terms of pricing.

Bill Mechanic

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In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.

Thomas B. Macaulay

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President Obama has decided that he wants his presidential library to be in Chicago, not Hawaii. Today Hawaii's governor said, 'Great, who's going to want to come to Hawaii now?'

Conan O'Brien

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Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

Heather Brewer

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To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.

Carolyn Wells

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At one point I took a copy of Berkeley's Principles from my father's library. That was the first philosophy book I read. I found it fascinating and wanted to read more philosophy.

Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

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In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

John Edward Williams

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This is a great idea," said Trey. "You kids should totaly go see that play. Make a whole day of it. Grab some dinner and hang out at the library or whatever it is you do for fun.

Richelle Mead

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It's strange, isn't it. You stand in the middle of a library and go aaaaagghhhh' and everyone just stares at you. But you do the same thing on an aeroplane, and everyone joins in.

Tommy Cooper

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A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way than the book can be found, we should use it.

Melvil Dewey

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If you possess a library and a garden, you have everything you need. (translation from the French) Si vous possedez une bibliotheque et un jardin, vous avez tout ce qu'il vous faut.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust, leather, binding glue, and old paper, one book carrying the smell of hundreds.

Shannon Hale

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If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle.

Alberto Manguel

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You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you donât open them.

Benjamin Disraeli

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If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, itâs your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.

Charles Bukowski

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I went to the library and began to read some stuff on my own. My discovery of James Baldwin was life-changing. I read Go Tell It on the Mountain first, and that was hugely impactful.

Michael Eric Dyson

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It's partly that I'm an extrovert and that I like being with people. If you shut me up in a library with nothing else around for weeks on end, I'd go mad! I have to sort of go out...

N. T. Wright

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When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It's like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I'm very lucky.

Sarah Jessica Parker

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I think the New York Public Library is so, so amazing. It's literally the coolest place - It's good shelter from the sun and it's the most beautiful building. It's really, really fun.

Natalie Portman

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Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.

Gennifer Flowers

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Seeing one's books on the shelf tells you so much about the way somebody has, over the years, put together their private library, which is a reflection of their minds and their selves.

Jeanette Winterson

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I went to the library as soon as I could walk. So the training came from reading all kinds of people, from fairy tales and later on to - I don't know why - Schweitz's "Life of Christ."

Nat Hentoff

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I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design.

P. G. Wodehouse

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Sometimes I just experiment quite a lot. I've always got my computer set up to record so I'll just record a sort of library of ideas [that] I'll either come back to or use as they stand.

Thighpaulsandra

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The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.

Melvil Dewey

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I guess in my own egotistical way I like to create my own library of Batman books that doesn't run contrary to a single thing that has been published before, but it also stands on its own.

Frank Miller

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We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library

Carl Sagan

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Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?

Saul Williams

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In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

Alexander Smith

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Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping serenity of order, time magically dessicated and preserved.

Jorge Luis Borges

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My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books.

Sarah Bird

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If I were not a king, I would be a university man; and if it were so that I must be a prisoner, if I might have my wish, I would desire to have no other prison than that library [the Bodleian].

King James I

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We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. Thats the only disadvantage.

Mordecai

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Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore.

Ray Bradbury

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A gentleman ... sleeps at his work. That's what work's for. Why do you think they have the SILENCE notices in the library? So as not to disturb me in my little nook behind the biography shelves.

Alan Ayckbourn

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Will!" Charlotte threw up her hands. "Why didn't you say so?" "You know, the books on demon pox are in the library," Will said with an injured tone. "I wasn't preventing anyone from reading them

Cassandra Clare

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I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn't exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual's curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

Scott Turow

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At a given instant everything the surgeon knows suddenly becomes important to the solution of the problem. You can't do it an hour later, or tomorrow. Nor can you go to the library and look it up.

John W. Kirklin

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Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never get past the first chapter. To me, the title better say everything there is to say about the book.

Larry Winget

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Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.

Alberto Manguel

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You see? I know where every single book used to be in the library. She pointed to the shelf opposite. Over there was Catch-22, which was a hugely popular fishing book and one of a series, I believe.

Jasper Fforde

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I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it.

Patrick Ness

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In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

Norman Mailer

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The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.

Peter York

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When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.

Eric Ripert

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When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

Mark Twain

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In the library of the world men have hitherto been ranged according to the form, and the binding; the time is coming when they will take rank and order according to their contents and intrinsic merits.

Nicolas Chamfort

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A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.

Alberto Manguel

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Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.

Dervla Murphy

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There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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Please," said Lirael..."I think I would like to work in this Library." "The Library," repeated Sanar, looking troubled. "That can be dangerous to a girl of fourteen. Or a woman of forty, for that matter.

Garth Nix

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(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

Nick Hornby

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Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate the dire forecasts of which we're already so aware.

David Quammen

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Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.

Jules Renard

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The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

Piers Anthony

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Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.

Scott Turow

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I had no money to buy books, so between classes and work, I haunted the library. I even tutored in French with a sliding scale of payment: twenty dollars for an A, fifteen for a B, ten for a C, five for a D.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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We walked out of this library building downtown, just on our way to lunch, and I was walking a few steps behind Travolta, and when he opened the door, it was as if Jesus had just walked out into the commons.

Peter Jacobson

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He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.

Alberto Manguel

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If even rock was interesting, if even this ugliness was worth whole shelves at the library, required sophisticated tools to study, and inspired grown men to crack mountains and saw crystals--then what wasn't?

Annie Dillard

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... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.

Eve Babitz

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No possession can surpass, or even equal a good library, to the lover of books. Here are treasured up for his daily use and delectation, riches which increase by being consumed, and pleasures that never cloy.

John Alfred Langford

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Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.

Jorge Luis Borges

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I dont really have an office or anything, and I like to have to move location every two hours. So I just kind of write in a park, on a bench, in the library, in a cafe, back to the library, that kind of thing.

Steve Toltz

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There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.

Julian Fellowes

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We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories.

John Thomas Sladek

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If you want to become a biologist, it doesn't help to go into the Harvard biology library and all the information is there for you. You have to know what to look for and the internet is the same, just magnified.

Noam Chomsky

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I was a bookworm. Every week I'd go to the library and get seven books. Remember libraries? I wonder if people still go. And I learned about everything from the library. I came from a Scottish family. Old school.

Colin Mochrie

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Philanthropy is lost. The human spirit is suppressed. Most people want a legacy; they want to give something back, a library, a hospital wing, a donation to their church. This is a form of socialism that must go.

Lindsey Graham

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Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.

Malcolm Gladwell

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Talk about the sickest dunk, we had one guy throw it off the library which was about 60-feet away, back onto the court it bounced, and he timed it, went over there and got it. It was outstanding, man. It was crazy.

Darryl Dawkins

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Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.

Larry McMurtry

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I wanted to be a librarian from a very young age. Some of my earliest memories are being taken to the local library. I ended up working as a bookseller. Becoming a writer was the logical offshoot of being a reader.

Michael Scott

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In my work a good library is essential. It enables me to learn the background and previous discussions of the various issues I am called upon to decide. It provides the stability and continuity for the rule of law.

Sandra Day O'Connor

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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.

Anne Carson

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Your brain, Peekay, has two functions; it is a place for original thought, but also it is a reference library. Use it to tell you where to look, and then you will have for yourself all the brains that have ever been

Bryce Courtenay

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The shelves of books we haven't written, like those of books we haven't read, stretches out into the darkness of the universal library's farthest space. We are always at the beginning of the beginning of the letter A.

Alberto Manguel

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Boys and girls hid in the library stacks or behind the gym and flew at each other with no promise of love or even kindness, tasting one another in clumsly attempts to steal pleasure before they could be hurt or hated.

Laura Whitcomb

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The public library building, in my view, is just a little lower than the church, the cathedral, the temple, the synagogue and the mosque. Within those walls and along those stacks, I have found security and assurance.

Maya Angelou

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And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

Peter Ackroyd

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The Internet is where we all go to for the first stop of information. It's not the library any more, it's the Internet and if I want to find out about Kate Russell, what do I do? I Google Kate Russell. Simple as that.

Theo Paphitis

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I found in general, I got involved in that station toward the end of my freshmen year, and I just loved how there's this incredible library of music that I'd never heard of from all over the world and different genres.

Chris Baio

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-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners. -You will not find it. -Why am I not surprised?

Christine Feehan

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The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.

John Alfred Langford

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The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, or even a newsstand.

Louis L'Amour

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We are digital archives of the African Pliocene, even of Devonian seas; walking repositories of wisdom out of the old days. You could spend a lifetime reading in this ancient library and die unsated by the wonder of it.

Richard Dawkins

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If you need to know history, the real story of those before you, then you should go to the library and read newspaper clippings of someone like Muhammad Ali every day, then it might giver you some understanding of the man.

Alex Haley

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I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.

Ben Stein

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I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

David Foster Wallace

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One of the first things my father taught me was that the library was made for and available to me. It's a place where you not only learn from books but you learn responsibility - how to borrow, take care of, and give back.

Marcus Samuelsson

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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America's most privileged version of the level field.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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I went into the library and read about fast food and became amazed by all the stuff I didn't know. I learned that there is a whole world behind the counter that, it seemed to me, has been deliberately hidden from the public.

Eric Schlosser

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I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.

Isaac Asimov

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When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.

Elizabeth Von Arnim

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People who spend their working hours in a lab or research library or a classroom might be intent primarily on keeping or advancing their elite positions, thereby lending tacit support to power structures. Or they might not be.

Noam Chomsky

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Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three or four days a week from the age of eighteen on, and graduated from the library when I was twenty-eight.

Ray Bradbury

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It is, however, not to the museum, or the lecture-room, or the drawing- school, but to the library, that we must go for the completion of our humanity. It is books that bear from age to age the intellectual wealth of the world.

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

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The reality is, if you go to the library and read biographies, thousands of people have changed, radically changed. St. Augustine was one of them. He lived a terrible a life for the first 33 years, and then he radically changed.

Gary Chapman

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I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate is she or he who is lured into such a hellhole of enjoyment, stimulus, facts, passion and fun.

Willy Russell

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It reminds me of like this pathetic friend that everybody had when they were a little kid who would let you borrow any of his stuff if you would just be his friend. That's what the library is. A government funded pathetic friend.

Jerry Seinfeld

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I learned three important things in college-to use a library, to memorize quickly and visually, to drop asleep at any time given a horizontal surface and fifteen minutes. What I could not learn was to think creatively on schedule.

Agnes de Mille

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The late Queen Victoria once paid a royal visit to a renowned library. At one point, the head librarian asked, "Your Majesty, might I please introduce my daughter to you?" The queen replied, "I have come here to view the library."

Elizabeth Pakenham, Countess of Longford

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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.

Plato

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I discovered fantasy and science fiction when I was about 10, and read nothing else for about three years. I ran out of all the books that there were to read in the library. I was keen on reading stuff that took me to other places.

Terry Pratchett

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I followed the launch of the library with Margaret Atwood and then David Mitchell. I just sat quietly at home secretly envying them. Then just over a month ago she asked me if I would like to be the third author to join the library.

Sjon

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Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.

Sue Townsend

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The thing with the question of oneness or non-oneness is that you can literally discuss it forever. You can go into the philosophy section of any library and you'll see people have been discussing it forever and will continue to do so.

Brad Warner

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There's a serendipity to real life that the Internet can't duplicate. Do you use the library? For anything? Well, sometimes you end up picking up the book next to the one you were looking for, and it's that book that changes your life.

Laura Lippman

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A library is a temple unabridged with priceless treasure. Librarians are the majesties who loan the jewels of measure. They welcome to the kingdom the young and old of reapers and reign among the riches as the wondrous fortune keepers.

Pam MuÃ±oz Ryan

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The Internet is a big boon to academic research. Gone are the days spent in dusty library stacks digging for journal articles. Many articles are available free to the public in open-access journal or as preprints on the authors' website.

Nick Bostrom

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That you can go anywhere in America and get a book from a library is just the most amazing thing in the world. It's not a duty; it's a privilege and it's a joy. That joy is doubled and tripled and quadrupled if you read with other people.

Kate DiCamillo

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I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at the library I was constantly surrounded by people. And I loved my job, surrounded by so many books, so many lives, so much of the past.

Christopher Pike

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The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutions to which you can go without credentials. You don't even need the sticker on your windshield that you need to get into the public beach. All you need is the willingness to read.

Harry Golden

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I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

Warren Buffett

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To have a great university library near you with plenty of archives of all the journals that you want to research in the twentieth century is a remarkable asset, and I spend a day, maybe two days a week in that library. I just plain love it.

John Shelby Spong

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I can't imagine why you would want to take your child to see what the career of a writer is like, because it mostly consists of sitting in a room typing, or going to the library and looking something up. Those are not exciting things to watch.

Daniel Handler

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We take it into account from the very beginning and try to steer couples toward items that lend themselves to those circumstances. Sometimes we have to steer a little more forcefully - you can't fry French fries in the New York Public Library.

David Castle

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I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village.

Shirley Jackson

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It may be primarily property taxes in the case of a public library, or state taxes and tuition in the case of an academic library at a public university, but the funding sources of most libraries continue to have a strong geographic component.

Tom Peters

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The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.

Kurt Vonnegut

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... the subjective viewpoint is the only one to use regarding a library. Your true library is a collection of the books you want.You may have deplorably poor taste or bad judgment. Never mind. Correct those traits before you exchange your books.

Carolyn Wells

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Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture.

Russell Banks

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It looked like the sort of book described in library catalogues as "slightly foxed", although it would be more honest to admit that it looked as though it had beed badgered, wolved and possibly beared as well. -- Ah, but has it been hedgehogged?

Terry Pratchett

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It's Will," she said. "He's being absolutely ridiculous in the dining room." Charlotte looked puzzled. "How is this different from him being totally ridiculous in the library or the weapons room or any of the other places he's usually ridiculous?

Cassandra Clare

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Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?

Lev Grossman

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Katie Paterson introduced the project [ Future Library ] to a handful of writers at a very fine international literary festival in Denmark at the Louisiana Museum, I sent her an e-mail when I got back to Iceland, saying, "It's a wonderful project.

Sjon

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The Doctor: Just had a fall. All the way down there, right to the library. Heck of a climb back up. Amelia: You're soaking wet. The Doctor: I was in the swimming pool. Amelia: You said you were in the library. The Doctor: So was the swimming pool.

Steven Moffat

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More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward and the human story forward.

Barack Obama

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Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.

Charles Spurgeon

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I often find things at thrift stores and library sales that I never could have been looking for. In those cases, the research is done after the fact to figure out what, exactly, I've found. It's surprising how much out there still has no online presence.

Michael Dumontier

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People were stupid, sometimes. They thought the Library was a dangerous place because of all the magical books, which was true enough, but what made it really one of the most dangerous places there could ever be was the simple fact that it was a library.

Terry Pratchett

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A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with other people, and other thoughts, through books... Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had.

E. B. White

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This became Delacroix 's theme: that the achievements of the spirit all that a great library contained were the result of a state of society so delicately balanced that at the least touch they would be crushed beneath an avalanche of pent-up animal forces.

Kenneth Clark

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Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.

Neal Shusterman

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I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. All the wealth in the world and not a single intelligent idea as to how to employ it.

Andre Naffis-Sahely

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I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.

Gillian Roberts

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FedDev Ontario's investment in the Glanworth Branch Library has enhanced this unique landmark into an accessible learning hub for local community members. When we improve facilities, we are strengthening our communities and building a prosperous southern Ontario.

Gary Goodyear

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Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.

Sherman Alexie

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When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they checked my book out of the library, I'm delighted. I've always been a big library user, and feel a kinship with others who do the same thing.

David Sedaris

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Believers and doers are what we need - faithful librarians who are humble in the presence of books.... To be in a library is one of the purest of all experiences. This awareness of library's unique, even sacred nature, is what should be instilled in our neophites.

Lawrence Clark Powell

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I asked him what, if anything, got him down about teaching. He said he didn't think that anything about it got him exactly down, but there was one thing, he thought, that frightened him: reading the pencilled notations in the margins of books in the college library.

J. D. Salinger

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Having a person of Dr. Berthiaume's calibre leading Library and Archives Canada will be a solid asset to the organization. His extensive experience in the management of large cultural organizations and his strong leadership are important qualifications for this position.

Shelly Glover

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Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.

Sherman Alexie

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Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even the sanctuary; it is provoked in some unhappy souls by the near neighbourhood of any superior rank or excellence whatever.

Henry Parry Liddon

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For me, the historical and genealogical library is the one I use. I'm working on, I'll say, it's a time travel novel. I haven't written very much of it. That's the dirty secret of the Cullman center: The writers don't write their fiction there, they just do their research.

Andrew Sean Greer

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I could not do what I do without the kindness, consideration, resourcefulness and work of librarians, particularly in public libraries. What started me writing history happened because of some curiosity that I had about some photographs I'd seen in the Library of Congress.

David McCullough

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He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world's store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library.

Milan Kundera

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A library is a home filled with our stories. On every shelf, we see ourselves, experience our collective conscious, describe our dreams and our