Library Quotes
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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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Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.
Ray Bradbury
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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.
Ray Bradbury
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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.
Sharon Draper
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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.
Terence McKenna
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In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks.
Henry Rollins
Black Flag
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Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it.
Wanda Urbanska
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I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I may safely say no bookin my library remains unopened a year at a time, except my own works and Tennyson's.
Carolyn Wells
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Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries!
Stephen Fry
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Flirtation is a circulating library, in which we seldom ask twice for the same volume.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
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In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw the books anew, from without rather than from within, and was reminded of how beautiful they were simply as objects. The geometrical wonder of them all, each book on its own and all the books together, row upon row, the infinite patterns and possibilities they presented. They were truly lovely.
Trenton Lee Stewart
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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.
Ray Bradbury
