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People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considere...

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There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle r...

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He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books....

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Let us save what remains: not by vaults and locks which fence them from the public eye and use in co...

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THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great libra...

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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 tak...

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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now...

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anyone who’s worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant en...

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I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.

Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library.

Morris tried to keep the books in some sort of order, but they always mixed themselves up. The trage...

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William JoyceThe Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery ...

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A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very e...

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I don’t think people realise how vital libraries are or what a colossal danger it would be if we wer...

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When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops int...

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A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never faili...

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You get a lot of borderline cases in libraries.

Libraries are a tremendous and valuable resource, and I'm note sure it's possible to have too many o...

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My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins...

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What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that i...

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What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that i...

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When he was seventy-four years old the Cretan novelist Nikos Kazantzakis began a book. He called it ...

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The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is j...

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At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold int...

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

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Bell hooksRock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem

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

Chance wanting to defend her grandfather, but not about to leave the library, dustysafe sanctuary of...

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We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored ...

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Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors. The library connects us ...

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This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the ...

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the rent is a little higher herebut so far I've been able to pay itand that's a miracle toolike stil...

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Charles BukowskiThe Roominghouse Madrigals: Early Selected Poems

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

One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should ...

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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 ...

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My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.

As for reading, I wish I had a magic door to a library where I could go in, read for days and days, ...

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Controller Borasus sighed with relief. Libraries were not places of danger. It had to be a hoax.

Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that ...

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A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragem...

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Good books are rare, and to have a really good library, a few shelves are all we need. When I was st...

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I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl...

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I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl...

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I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library reso...

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my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries...

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There were also very special or dangerous items that had to be fetched in person, or even by large p...

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...I am still librarian in your house, for I never was dismissed, and never gave up the office. Now ...

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The woman at the desk was a university graduate, young, colourless, spectacled, and intensely disagr...

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

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes ...

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For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lendin...

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My mother explained the magic with this washing machine the very, very first day. She said, 'Now Han...

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I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of l...

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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.

Congratulations on the new library, because it isn't just a library. It is a space ship that will ta...

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Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire kn...

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Mr. Collins was to attend them, at the request of Mr. Bennet, who was most anxious to get rid of him...

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In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told E...

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

And Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might b...

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The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior—benefits that ex...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monaster...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

Wizards and computers get along about as well as flamethrowers and libraries.

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

They could take the money from building enough nukes to kill all the Russians in the world and give ...

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Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit ...

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Jo WaltonAmong Others

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

That the public library is a part of the educational system should never be lost sight of in the wor...

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[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the c

If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more ...

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I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt,If one be better with them or without,Unless he use them...

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Within a year or two, however, a couple of the first things I wrote – ‘Anarchy In The UK’ and ‘God S...

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John LydonAnger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored

Speaking of libraries: A big open-stack academic or public library is no small pleasure to work in. ...

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What in the world would we do without our libraries?

When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the chur...

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I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, w...

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The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experi...

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Libraries are a force for good. They wear capes. They fight evil. They don’t get upset when you don’...

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[W]hat people truly desire is access to the knowledge and information that ultimately lead to a bett...

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

Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim it depends on if the conquering army lik...

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The door of Reverend Verringer’s impressive manse is opened by an elderly female with a face like a ...

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In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you are absorbing the wisdom contained in al...

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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of a...

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Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.

We were all serious readers, sitting on wooden chairs at rows of lecterns, turning the pages, united...

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Knowledge is fundamental to all human achievements and progress. It is both the key and the quest th...

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...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out ...

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Libraries really are the gates to the future. So it is unfortunate that, round the world, we observe...

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Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba

Reading is important.Books are important.Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-ca...

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Neil Gaiman on librarians as knowledge navigators over time.“And information was hard to find. And i...

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Librarians are the coolest people out there doing the hardest job out there on the frontlines. And e...

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It's still National Library Week. You should be especially nice to a librarian today, or tomorrow. S...

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Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians.

We have an obligation to support libraries. To use libraries, to encourage others to use libraries, ...

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Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of the night.

Destiny smells of dust and the libraries of night.

The boy was a model pupil, forgettable and easily forgotten, and he sent much of his spare time in t...

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

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