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Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. — John F. Kennedy

Julius Caesar burned down a library?" I asked. "Fucker. — Rose Christo

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be. — Alberto Manguel

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. — Dan Brown

I spent my life in the library reading books. — Michael Caine

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone. — Lois McMaster Bujold

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps. — Antony Beevor

It was my sister's fault. She brought...books home before I was old enough to check them out of the library myself. — Michael Patrick Hearn

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours. — David Baldacci

I wanted a library like this ... [] A cave of words that I'd made myself. — Maggie Stiefvater

Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us. — Stephen King

I told him. We got a library here. Got plenty of good books, too. -Larry Brown, Dirty Work — Larry Brown

The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions. — Inglath Cooper

Paradise will be a kind of library — Jorge Luis Borges

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me. — Jonathan Taylor Thomas

We exist in the world of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

She was the books she read in the library. — Betty Smith

Libraries can in general be too narrow or too wide for the soul. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Zander was always sneaking off to the library to get more books ... Guy would read anything. Said books were more interesting than people. — Justin Cronin

There are so many books to read. What a paradise! — Lailah Gifty Akita

One of the great advantages of
having a library,your eminence,
is that it is full of books. — Michael Hirst

You can learn from a glance at anyone's library, not what they are, but what they wish to be. — Alan Bradley

Immigrants use the library often. A lot of them don't have access to books and Internet at home. They seem so disconnected to the city. — Rabindranath Maharaj

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely. — Mo Willems

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace. — Helene Hanff

He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen to people breathing. — Neil Gaiman

They should be taking bonuses from bankers, not library books from schoolchildren. What kind of society are we building? — Sara Sheridan

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. — Alberto Manguel

What better place to kill time than a library? — Diane Setterfield

Do not be guilty of possessing a library of learned books while lacking learning yourself. — Desiderius Erasmus

A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious. — Helen Oyeyemi

If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have. — Sarah Elwell

I'm a library user and I just don't hoard books. To me, they're for sharing. — Sara Sheridan

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him. — Harry Emerson Fosdick

I will tell everyone I know to come [to the library]. This place saves lives. — Gina Sheridan

If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books. — Mark Pryor

If I'm researching something strange and rococo, I'll go to the London Library or the British Library and look it up in books. — Ben Schott

It's as if the city has become a library of books in an unknown language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished. — Anthony Doerr

When I was a student I spent a lot of time in the library. That's where the books and smart girls were. — Mike Bove

Planting a flower's like opening a book, because either way you're starting something. And your garden's your library. — Nora Roberts

I'm a math genius!" - Niall "675 books plus 350 books equals?" - Louis "...A Library! Ask harder questions Lou!" - Niall — Jessica Stewart

People are living books. The real library of life is community. — Bryant McGill

I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred library. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A great library cannot be constructed; it is the growth of ages. — John Hill Burton

Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. — William Shakespeare

Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the books in the world. — Betty Smith

What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read? — Ray Bradbury

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books. — Cheech Marin

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book. — Elizabeth Kostova

If your library is not "unsafe," it probably isn't doing its job. — John Berry

I believe we do well to fall asleep each night with books. We enter the library of our dreams in good company then. — Robert Stephen Parry

All through my journey his stories had fallen like snow. He was as full of them as a library with unmarked shelves. He was a talking book. — Sofia Samatar

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading. — Stephen D. Krashen

E-books are impervious to analogy. — Scott Adams

He died at home in his library, surrounded by the books he loved. — Oliver Sacks

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death. — Garrett Leigh

The library was the best place in the world. — Anita Anand

The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. — John Allen Paulos

The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals. — Samuel Davies

I suspect that the real attraction was a large library of fine books, which was left to dust and spiders since Uncle March died. — Louisa May Alcott

the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish. — Aubrey F.G. Bell

She was sorry to have left her room. She looked at the pile of library books on her floor [...] and felt better. — Tracey Lindberg

In the room ... they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams. — Rainer Maria Rilke

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books. — Joanna Trollope

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books. — Andrew Wylie

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! — Charles Ogden

(this is before we're living together, before we do the most faithful act of all, mix our separate books into one library) — Ali Smith

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them. — Gilles Menage

Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book. — John Baxter

Library terror - that feeling of being hopelessly overwhelmed by the sheer quantity of available books ... — Owen Barfield

A life without books is empty. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. — Anatole France

The function of a great library is to store obscure books. — Nicholson Baker

All I did was go to the library to borrow some books — Haruki Murakami

Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen. — Alberto Manguel

There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H. — Cassandra Clare

Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge. — Trenton Lee Stewart

Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be. — Lailah Gifty Akita

A good library has all the good books. A great library has all the books. — Daniel C. Dennett

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry

My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books I read. — Jorge Luis Borges

The books I'd checked out of the library earlier in the week were still stacked on my bureau, whispering my name and begging to be read. — Laurie Halse Anderson

Come with me,' Mom says.
To the library.
Books and summertime
go together. — Lisa Schroeder

Books, bringing people together.' That would make a good slogan for the library. — Kasie West

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading. — John Quincy Adams

I see the beauty of books and sacred-souls of every author displaced in a bookshop. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I live within the world of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature. — Mary Virginia Provines

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. — Jorge Luis Borges

Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians. — Richard Scarry

I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them. — Neela Vaswani

Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books. — George Gilfillan

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books. — Tom T. Hall

And best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her. — Louisa May Alcott

I'm a fastidious bookman and have never liked reading books with library markings or other messy defects. — Larry McMurtry

I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my soul's delight. — Nikki Grimes

In the library, surrounded by books and computers and scientific journals, I feel like I could grow. — Jeremy Bronaugh

My library is an archive of longings. — Susan Sontag

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books. — Alberto Manguel