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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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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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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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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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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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The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.

—Scott Douglas

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…killing rats wasn’t in my job description.

—Scott Douglas

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Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to...

—Alberto Manguel

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Defending the library service from the predations of ideologically-motivated public schoolboys who had immensely privileged childhoods isn’t ‘whining,’ it is the pursuit of passionately held beliefs.

—Alan Gibson

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Book should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don’t you agree?

—Christopher Paolini

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The library knows that it is a temporary fix. We have a stamp for the inside front cover: BROKEN SPINE NOTED. It is like a bracelet worn by a diabetic. When you return the book...

—Don Borchert

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Jacksonville has more public libraries than people who know how to read.

—Jarod Kintz

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

—Jean-Paul Sartre

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Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

—Laura Bush

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Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

—Maya Angelou

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In a few minutes I heard the books’ voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I’d heard it many times before. I’ve always had a finely tuned ear for a library’s accumulations of echo and desire....

—Martha Cooley

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His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly...

—Ray Bradbury

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But we’re a university! We have to have a library!” said Ridcully. “It adds tone. What sort of people would we be if we didn’t go into the library?””Students,” said Senior Wrangler morosely.

—Terry Pratchett

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Geschichten sind unser Gedächtnis, Bibliotheken die Lagerstätten für dieses Gedächtnis und Lesen das Handwerk, mit dem wir dieses Gedächtnis neu erschaffen können, indem wir es rezitieren und glossieren, es wieder in unsere eigene Erfahrung rückübersetzen...

—Alberto Manguel

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We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called...

—Carl Sagan

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Joss’s ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books and dust and happy solitude quite like a library did.

—Heather Brewer

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Note found in the patron suggestion box:”You have SIGNS up near the computers that say BE QUIET, but people don’t be quiet. They laugh out loud and talk out loud. Libraries used to be quiet,...

—Gina Sheridan

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I won’t be sad too often,If they bury me in the libraryWith bookworms in my coffin.

—J. Patrick Lewis

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Your mind is your library of what you read.

—Lailah Gifty Akita

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The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God’s understanding of the world.””And yet with a bigger library we could come ever so much closer.

—Neal Stephenson

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I was so getting tired of fighting for my life in the library.

—Jennifer Estep

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The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading...

—Robert Musil

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The International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)… to establish a superior library reflecting the religious and intellectual traditions both of the Islamic and Western civilizations.

—Syed Muhammad

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In the bare room under the old library on the hill in the town at the tip of the small peninsula on the cold island so far from everything else, I lived among strangers and...

—Rebecca Solnit

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A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.

—Arthur Baer

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People come to me for the solution of their problem, if my knowledge and experience is not enough to solve the problem, I go to my library read the relevant book and provide the solution.

—Amit Kalantri

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He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he’d spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library – hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams...

—Carlos Ruiz

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Some books you never get over, like a first love. Some books that made an enormous impression on you when you were young you are afraid to read again years later, like being sorry you...

—Darryl Pinckney

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There is something nice about a library, isn’t there?” Mr. Curtis said. He nodded and took in the familiar scenery. “The scent of ink and worn, dusty pages.

—Ilana Waters

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I have always kept a stack of library books next to my bed as a lifeline. If I ever woke in the middle of the night too scared to move or too sad to roll...

—Julie Halpern

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Those who spend the greater part of their time in reading or writing books are, of course, apt to take rather particular notice of accumulations of books when they come across them. They will not...

—M.R. James

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He looks at me, and I don’t know what he sees. I used to think it was Rose. But she’s not here with us now, in this room. It’s just him and me, and the...

—Lauren DeStefano

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The library was my only blessing. Every time I climbed the stairs, my heart lifted. All day, I looked forward to the happy hours I spent in that beautiful room. My guilt over appa’s fate...

—Padma Venkatraman

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Doctor Who: You want weapons? We’re in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room’s the greatest arsenal we could have. Arm yourself!(from Tooth and Claw in Season 2)

—Russell T.

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Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among...

—Umberto Eco

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Yet there in the library, Hamish and I climbed the bright ladder of the body, as if it were sky and we a deafening. twisting flock of birds that could never fall to earth.

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If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world’s essential, joyful muddle.

—Alberto Manguel

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It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

—Elizabeth Kostova

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The patron gets comfortable in bed and opens up the book — it opens tentatively — and the patron bends the open book backward until there is a satisfying crack and the book is a...

—Don Borchert

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Well, when it became obvious that magic was going to wreck the computer networks, people tried to preserve portions of the Internet. They took snapshots of their servers and sent the data to a central...

—Ilona Andrews

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