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Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...

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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the do...

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When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that Americ...

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I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, t...

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Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patie...

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I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and...

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How to distract Scorpius from difficult emotional issues? Take him to a library." - Albus Severus Po...

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Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

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

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry — I think I've just understood something! I've got to go to the library!”And she sprinted away...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Over a hundred German scientists arrived here [Huntsville] at eleven o’clock on an April morning and...

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the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: “Our attention cannot...

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He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was ...

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

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Jane AustenJane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than ...

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

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Jane AustenSense and Sensibility

They say that Caliph Omar, when consulted about what had to be done with the library of Alexandria, ...

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Jean-Jacques RousseauDiscourse on the Sciences and Arts (1st Discourse) and Polemics

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

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In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they could...

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Jeanette WintersonOranges Are Not the Only Fruit

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

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If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the c...

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If books were girls and reading was s-ss-ssss-fucking, this would be the biggest whorehouse in the c...

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

Have you really read all those books in your room?”Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’ve maybe read a th...

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Nothing is more impotent than an unread library.

But before [William Stoner] the future lay bright and certain and unchanging. He saw it, not as a fl...

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

Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitat...

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I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in on...

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The universe (which others call the Library) is composed of an indefinite, perhaps infinite number o...

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Censors don’t want children exposed to ideas different from their own. If every individual with an a...

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In the meantime, there is not an hour to lose. I am about to visit the public library.

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Jules VerneJourney to the Center of the Earth

In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes...

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What in the world would we do without our libraries?

When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one aft...

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

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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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Spray a book with insect spray, drop it in a bag, add some mothballs and seal it. Put it in another ...

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

The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume the...

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Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll...

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Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to ta...

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M. R. JamesA Warning to the Curious Ghost Stories

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

I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to go b...

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I became a librarian at the Sainte-Genevieve Library in Paris. I made this gesture to rid myself of ...

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Some people write letters, in the library.

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Margaret AtwoodIn Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination

They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.

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Marge PiercyDance the Eagle to Sleep

Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can fairly be called a librar...

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

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

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

Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebod...

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continui...

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

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For kids who are exposed to books at home, the loss of a library is sad. But for kids who come from ...

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I like to engage the public because when I was in high school, I had all these questions about anti-...

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Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you do...

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understandin...

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every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infi...

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Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've vis...

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There was a grumpy librarian in the library. I could tell that he was the librarian because he seeme...

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

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The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in...

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

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

The library, with its Daedalian labyrinth, mysterious hush, and faintly ominous aroma of knowledge, ...

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In the room...they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning...

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I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was i...

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I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in...

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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always t...

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INTERVIEWERYou’re self-educated, aren’t you?BRADBURYYes, I am. I’m completely library educated. I’ve...

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His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did....

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Up steps, three, six, nine, twelve! Slap! Their palms hit the library door. * * * They opened the do...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms,...

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Ray BradburySomething Wicked This Way Comes

It is possible that librarians will be robots, controlled by Master Minds having mastery of a master...

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I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd l...

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It was a high ceilinged room with tall, large-panes windows. Apart from the doorway was the desk whe...

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There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and...

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The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge ...

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Robert MusilThe Man Without Qualities

Besides, I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful...

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Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room'...

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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 hal...

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And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a ...

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

Corliss wondered what happens to a book that sits unread on a library shelf for thirty years. Can a ...

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Sherman AlexieTen Little Indians

Bookshelves stood against the four walls. They were shapely and well made, but were all second-hand;...

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He sat there studiously bent over his work (Bill saw him), which lay in a slant of crisp white winte...

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A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

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Stewart BrandHow Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built

My library is an archive of longings.

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Susan SontagAs Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks

During this time (at high school) I discovered the Public Library... It was here that I found a sour...

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The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future o...

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Even the most misfitting childWho's chanced upon the library's worth,Sits with the genius of the Ear...

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Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts t...

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Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited p...

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He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the pea...

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As humans, we have invented lots of useful kinds of lie. As well as lies-to-children ('as much as th...

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I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishme...

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