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Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation. — Richard Russo

Much have I travelled in the realms of gold for which I thank the Paddington and Westminster Public Libraries. — Peter Porter

When life seems not worth living, ten minutes in a library proves otherwise. — Miv Schaaf

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

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

We cannot have good libraries until we first have good librarians-properly educated, profesionally recognized and fairly rewarded. — Herbert S. White

I have spent a reasonable percentage of my life in libraries - I like the hush. — Robin Ince

A library - a place full of books! Imagine!" Ivy couldn't imagine a place closer to heaven. Think of all the books you could read! — Gemma Jackson

And, the treasure? A library card: key to all the doors in the story world. — Trudy Wallis

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask. — Michael Weston

I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time. — Kam Williams

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

Rich people have small TVs, small cars, but big libraries. — Manoj Arora

You can tell a lot about an area from its library, and I'd never discount the usefulness of town archives. — Hester Young

I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means. — Haruki Murakami

If the library's rarest frequenters are the ones we'd like to see in them the most, then libraries are failing. — David Harsanyi

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library. — Walter Savage Landor

The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer. — Lemony Snicket

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons? — Fran Lebowitz

Books are a world in themselves, it is true; but they are not the only world. The world itself is a volume larger than all the libraries in it. — William Hazlitt

I spent many, many hours in ... libraries. Libraries became courts of last resort, as it were. — Arthur Ashe

Cutting libraries during a recession is like cutting hospitals during a plague. — Eleanor Crumblehulme Library Assistant University Of British Columbia

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

A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity. — Germaine Greer

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. — Maud Hart Lovelace

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

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void. — Piers Anthony

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. — Jerzy Kosinski

Public libraries are the last vestige of public free space. — Joshua Prince-Ramus

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man — T. S. Eliot

If you cut funding to libraries, you cut the lifeblood of our communities. — Richard M. Daley

A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert. — Andrew Carnegie

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age. — George Bancroft

When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough — Josh Hanagarne

One of the many reasons I love libraries. Everyone is lost and not wanting to be found in a library. — Sarah Noffke

What does it profit you that all the libraries of the world should be yours? Not knowledge but what one does with knowledge is your profit. — Saib Tabrizi

Libraries hold the wisdom of the world and the stories of the ages - available to everyone, free of charge! — Linda Sue Park

Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed? — Arthur D. Hlavaty

The library became the cathedral where I would come to worship amd the stories were as precious to me as prayers. — Anita Anand

Her library is a meeting place for all who love books. They discuss matters of the world and matters of the spirit. — Jeanette Winter

Meek young men grow up in libraries. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Classroom libraries are not 25 copies of 5 books. Classroom libraries are 1000-2000 copies of different books. — Richard Allington

What in the world would we do without our libraries? — Katharine Hepburn

How little our libraries cost us as compared with our liquor cellars. — John Lubbock

Support your libraries ... or else! — Margaret Atwood

If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks. — Wendell H. Ford

The library is like a candy store where everything is free. — Jamie Ford

Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife. — Joanne Harris

Libraries raised me. — Ray Bradbury

When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. — Rita Mae Brown

Library users tell survey researchers that they want access to more ebooks and they want libraries to offer more technologically up-to-date services. — John Palfrey

I was made for the library, not the classroom. The classroom was a jail of other people's interests. The library is open, unending, free. — Ta-Nehisi Coates

Elizabeth sank into the leather wing chair in the library of her mind and began to read. — L.J.M. Owen

Libraries are the pride of the city. — Amy Tan

What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers? — Henry David Thoreau

Libraries
Are
Neccessary
Gardens,
Unsurpassed
At
Growing
Excitement — J. Patrick Lewis

With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer. — Lemony Snicket

My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library. — David Mamet

I remember visits to the local libraries and getting my own library cards as things of rite-of-passage significance. — Richard K. Morgan

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all. — LeVar Burton

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society. — Janis Ian

Access to public libraries also affects how much children read. — Stephen D. Krashen

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth. — Madeleine Albright

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life. — Ray Bradbury

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life. — Norman Cousins

That's what I like so much about libraries, they smell the way we would like to imagine the past. — Ruth Reichl

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture. — Vartan Gregorian

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging. — Susan Orlean

I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries. — Douglas Brinkley

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

I have become convinced that we blacks spend too much time on the playing field and too little time in libraries. — Arthur Ashe

Film, television and to a certain extent, theater are modern day libraries. — David Strathairn

The library, I presume," he said quietly. "I've a fondness for libraries. — Lorraine Heath

Places of incredible glamour, possibility, power, excitement and pleasure. Love your libraries! — Stephen Fry

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

Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library. — Ray Bradbury

I want to know how the hell you managed to locate that hideout using the damn public library. — Richard Castle

The better the school library, the higher the reading scores. — Stephen D. Krashen

The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography. — Phyllis Schlafly

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

I fall in love with any girl who smells of library paste. — Charles M. Schulz

A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions. — Trudy Wallis

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries. — David McCullough

In every town we lived in, there was one great big door ready to open for anyone - the library. And I never met a library I didn't like. — William Stafford

Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries. — Robin Sharma

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

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering. — Jacqueline Woodson

In common with librarians the world over, the two women were used to dealing with a disproportionate quota of odd people acting strangely. — Jose Latour

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

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored. — Dorothy Canfield Fisher

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

Invaders always destroy libraries. — Storm Jameson

Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain. — E. Jean Carroll

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

I tell you, if you feel strange,
strange things will happen to you:
Fallen peacocks on library shelves — Rita Dove

Ordinary people have big TVs. Extraordinary people have big libraries. — Robin Sharma

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

Libraries ... house our dreams. — Nikki Giovanni