Library Quotes
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I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction - so I'll usually take a book and go off to one of my favorite bistros for a cappuccino or espresso or maybe I'll have some lovely smoked salmon for breakfast.
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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.
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As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books.
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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.
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I was always looking ahead. I used to do all kinds of things for entertainment. When I was young, we had no radio, no TV. We were 30 miles from the public library, out in the sticks in Western Kansas, and so I'd do arithmetic exercises.
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Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.
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I fell in love with reading when I was allowed to choose whatever books I wanted to check out of the library.
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My father was an engineer - he wasn't literary, not a writer or a journalist, but he was one of the world's great readers. Every two weeks, he'd take me to our local branch library and pull books off the shelf for me, stacking them up in my arms - 'Have you read this? And this? And this?'
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I smiled at her, but she was already lost in thought, looking around the library as if it held all the answers to all our problems.
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
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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.
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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.
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Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you find a book that you love.
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To see what books were available for my older students, I made many trips to the library. If a book looked interesting, I checked it out. I once went home with 30 books! It was then that I realized that kids' novels had the shape of real books, and I began to get ideas for young adult novels and juvenile books.
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There is no problem a library card can't solve.
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A great library easily begets affection, which may deepen into love.
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I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
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That is very cool that Benjamin Franklin walked the streets here. I read about Franklin in a library book. I think he was very smart and did more than fly a kite.
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Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.
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Between the ages of fifteen and twenty-four, I must have read a whole library.
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I think, Queen Victoria's diaries, I think you can get them if you go to the British Library.
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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.
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I think that once you start writing songs, you start developing a library of ideas that you can go and take from, so it gets easier as you go.
