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... even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump.
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.
You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!
A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
Problems of human behavior still continue to baffle us, but at least in the Library we have them properly filed.
Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.
I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
Whoever would do good in the world, ought not to deal in censure. We ought not to destroy, but rather construct.
Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read.
I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries.
I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time.
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Start at once a bedside library and spend the last half hour of the day in communion with the saints of humanity.
I'm focusing on the music, but I still got a cold library of books that I've either read or I plan on getting to.
You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple.
We measure the value of a civilized society by the number of # libraries it opens, not the number it closes down.
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
Some people are made to be famous and do photo shoots, but I'm not one of them. I'm more comfortable in the library!
Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.
I just have this feeling that if it weren't for the Gloversville Free Library that I probably would not be a writer.
Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]
Rediscovery in the library may be a more difficult and uncertain process than the first discovery in the laboratory.
Here was one place where I could find out who I was and what I was going to become. And that was the public library.
OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.
When I was in my 20s, I was a bookworm - spent 12 hours of the day in the library. How I met George, I'll never know.
Libraries offer, for free, the wisdom of the ages--and sages--and, simply put, there's something for everyone inside.
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants.
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt.
To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.
I'd be happy if I could think that the role of the library was sustained and even enhanced in the age of the computer.
Truly I say to you, a single number has more genuine and permanent value than an expensive library full of hypotheses.
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from the library.
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back.
If you do not throw in a few promises of better things to come, gloomy one, I am going to take you back to the library.
I have just committed the mortal sin of laughing in the Members' Library. No-one around here has done that for a while.
An actress spends a lifetime observing people. You build up a mental library. No, not a library. Make that a repository.
I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.