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My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.

—Peter Golkin

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Fourteen is the age when time first starts to make its presence felt. Time took on such a variety of hues in those days that even my frozen mind sometimes reflected the colours of the...

—Indu Muralidharan

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It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is an entirely different kind of remarkable.

—Brandt Legg

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A library was nothing without its people. You say library and there’s this iconoclastic image of an old-lady librarian telling people to be quiet and not to run. But the thing was, that lady—that iconoclastic...

—Scott Douglas

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There’s something deep in the heart of every person that wantsto protect culture. The only thing about my pending career thatwas changed because of 9/11 was that I began to see it was the community,not...

—Scott Douglas

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To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of thepast and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. Iwas motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.

—Scott Douglas

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They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?

—Scott Douglas

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We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.

—Scott Douglas

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The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.

—Scott Douglas

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It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if...

—Scott Douglas

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I like to imagine that library school was started because of some sort of silly bar bet where a guy got really plastered and told his buddy that he could convince people that librarians needed...

—Scott Douglas

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…killing rats wasn’t in my job description.

—Scott Douglas

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History shows that an examination of the personal collection of titles in any man’s library will provide something of a glimpse into his soul.

—Andrew Smith

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It has long been my belief that everyone’s library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library,...

—Anne Fadiman

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A library should fill our leisure with adventure. It is a refuge from the commonplace and the dull, a sanctuary where all the trials, the tribulations, and the boredoms of the outer world are forbidden...

—E. Norman

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I’m a book lover. I’ve probably already fucked a whole library.

—Jarod Kintz

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The house I grew up in is one of a kind. It’s a bibliophile’s fantasy, and if the Library of Congress had a little brother who was a midget, you could find him residing in...

—Jarod Kintz

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Every time I went to the library, it felt like a treasure hunt: somewhere amid those dusty books was the answer, and all I had to do was find it.

—Jean M.

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I have always had a special affinity for libraries and librarians, for the most obvious reasons. I love books. (One of my first Jobs was shelving books at a branch of the Chicago Public Library.)...

—John Jakes

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Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca.

—Jorge Luis

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The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson’s education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them.

—Rachel Cohen

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Blaming the library for exposure to pornography is like blaming the lake if your child walks up to it alone, falls in and then drowns. – David Sawyer, Spokesman-Review, 18 December 2000

—Tatyana Eckstrand

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To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

—Sophie Divry

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Why can’t I just Google it like everything else?! I hate you public library system!

—Vera Brosgol

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Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

—Alberto Manguel

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She’d absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn’t own and feel no remorse about it.

—Ally Carter

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Th’ first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.Fr’m time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.But th’ shelf is th’ main thing.

—Finley Peter

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How can you be nervous? Don’t you see? We’re in a library.

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Oh, wow.””What do you think?””I tried to imagine, but–I mean…it’s so much more–“”Think it’s large enough to keep you satisfied for a while?””It’s so much bigger than I expected”He backed away, leaving Beatrice to gaze...

—Elizabeth Hunter

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Every library is a palace; every book is a king; every reading is a magic!

—Mehmet Murat

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What in the world would we do without our libraries?

—Katharine Hepburn

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We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

—John Lubbock

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Everybody comes to the library naked. That’s why they come here – to dress themselves in books.

—Pasi Ilmari

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You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James,...

—Ray Bradbury

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Somhow those Ten Men — at the time they were called Recruiters, of course — discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it...

—Trenton Lee

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But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

—Alberto Manguel

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Részvétet éreztem az ismeretlen sportember iránt, és egyúttal kárörömet is. Úgy kell neki, miért sportember, de ha már sportember, mit keres minálunk. Valószínűleg ő is így érzett volna irányomban, ha a golfpályán látott volna meg...

—Antal Szerb

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I couldn’t live a week without a private library – indeed, I’d part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I...

—H.P. Lovecraft

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I’m up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I’m tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria.

—Jarod Kintz

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Oh please tell me we’re not doing the Poirot thing again — the suspects in the library with the candlestick or whatever’.Max looked at him [DCI Cotton]. ‘Fruitcake in this case. And what would you...

—G.M. Malliet

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The world is quiet here.

—Lemony Snicket

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Over the years I have collected so many books that, in aggregate, they can fairly be called a library.I don’t know what percentage of them I have read. Increasingly I wonder how many of them...

—Marilynne Robinson

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Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn’t think they had perished. Most likely they were hiding now, somewhere in this landscape of books.

—Lavie Tidhar

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Dr. Beall gave him the first shot, followed closely by the second.He said, “I’ll check for a heartbeat.”I said, “You don’t need to. I can see it in his eyes.”Dewey was gone.

—Vicki Myron

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An exile, said Zafar, is a refugee with a library.

—Zia Haider

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The library is a symbol of freedom.

—Sara Sheridan

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A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber room of his library, where he...

—Arthur Conan Doyle

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He wished he was with his mom in her library, where everything was safe and numbered and organized by the Dewey decimal system. Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That...

—Brian Selznick

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A fig for your precious society with its bridge parties, its inane chatter, its cheap mentality; its dances and vulgar banquets; its snobbery and cheap pretension. The humblest library can show you upon a single...

—E. Norman

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they should let some people into the library by prescription only

—Chuck Palahniuk

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