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“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
― Ta-Nehisi Coates

tags: books, finding-your-way, libraries, library

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“Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
― Walter Cronkite

tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries

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#3

“A library is infinity under a roof.”
― Gail Carson Levine

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#4

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: education, sex

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#5

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

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#6

“When all else fails, give up and go to the library.”
― Stephen King, 11/22/63

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#7

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
― Cicero

tags: books

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#8

“My library is an archive of longings.”
― Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

tags: books, library, longing

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#9

“For to know a man's library is, in some measure, to know his mind.”
― Geraldine Brooks, March

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#10

“My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.”
― Malcolm X

tags: books, reading

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#11

“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.”
― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid

tags: library

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#12

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

tags: hope, humanity, library

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#13

“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”
― Jean Fritz

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#14

“That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.”
― Aphra Behn, The Lucky Chance

tags: library, reading

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#15

“The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library.”
― Albert Einstein

tags: library

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#16

“Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries.”
― Anne Herbert

tags: book-lovers, books, money, reading

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#17

“It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.”
― Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian

tags: books, home, library

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#18

“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, The Lost Symbol

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#19

“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.”
― Brian Selznick, Wonderstruck

tags: libraries

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#20

“She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

tags: libraries

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#21

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”
― Zig Ziglar

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#22

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

tags: books, censorship, freedom, libraries, reading, thought

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#23

“My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.”
― Joan Bauer, Rules of the Road

tags: books, library

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#24

“In principle and reality, libraries are life-enhancing palaces of wonder.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

tags: books, libraries, reading

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#25

“You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!”
― Steven Moffat

tags: doctor-who

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#26

“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”
― Stephen Fry

tags: humor, libraries, originality

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#27

“I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows.”
― Roger Zelazny, Nine Princes in Amber

tags: libraries, libraries-shadows, security, words

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#28

“There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”
― Ray Bradbury

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#29

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

tags: libraries, reading

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#30

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
― Ray Bradbury

tags: books, future, libraries, past

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