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“The world is full of magical places, and the library has always been one of them for me. A library can be that special place for our children.”
“I walked inside and paused for a moment to breathe in the scent of paper and dustthe perfumes of knowledge.”
“Be careful. As if somethings going to jump us in a library.You might be surprised.What do you mean?You know how people say a book is really gripping?Dont tell me Cat trailed off.Libraries can be da...”
“All libraries must submit to a certain order, I answered. Indeed, agreed the professor, or all will be lost. The fall of nations and empires begins with the fall of libraries.”
“She hadn't met Earth or Fire, the other two cousins, but she'd filled a couple of library requests for each of them in the past week. If they were around, they would help her. Wouldn't they?”
“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.”
“A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and...”
“When life seems not worth living, ten minutes in a library proves otherwise.”
“Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barba”
“I was pretty sure I'd just had a nerdgasm.”
“Our sense that a library is a public good and our idea of what such a place should look like derived precisely from a model created in Rome several thousand years ago.”
“It was a common complaint amongst the Arts students that their library was in dire need of refurbishment. To call the old building shabby chic was being kind. It didnt have automated stacks or self...”
“In his library he had been always sure of leisure and tranquility; and though prepared, as he told Elizabeth, to meet with folly and conceit in every other room in the house, he was used to be free...”
“All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the American public has been making for over thir...”
“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.”
“She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.”
“Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness ...”
“You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.”
“A great library doesn't have to be big or beautiful. It doesn't have to have the best facilities or the most efficient staff or the most users. A great library provides. It is enmeshed in the life ...”
“One of the most subversive institutions in the United States is the public library..”
