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...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out of the world through somebody else’s eyes. It’s ve...more

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Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe local authorities seizing the opportunity to clos...more

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Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba

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Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise ...more

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Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.“And information was hard to find. And it was hard to find because it was like a flower gr...more

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Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And every time I get to encounter or work with libraria...more

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It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. Sometime this week, anyway. Probably the librarians...more

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Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

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We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, to protest the closure of libraries. If you do not...more

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Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.

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The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in the back of the English class where there were shel...more

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We should do our best to satisfy your interests in stories and books and the world. There are libraries.

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Libraries are about Freedom. Freedom to read, freedom of ideas, freedom of communication. They are about education (which is not a process that finish...more

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I should mention here that librarians tell me never to tell this story, and especially never to paint myself as a feral child who was raised in librar...more