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  • #1
    John Green
    “Adult librarians are like lazy bakers: their patrons want a jelly doughnut, so they give them a jelly doughnut. Children’s librarians are ambitious bakers: 'You like the jelly doughnut? I’ll get you a jelly doughnut. But you should try my cruller, too. My cruller is gonna blow your mind, kid.”
    John Green

  • #2
    Neil Gaiman
    “Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
    Neil Gaiman

  • #3
    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    Walter Cronkite

  • #4
    Andrew Carnegie
    “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

  • #5
    Dorothy Parker
    “I'm of the glamorous ladies
    At whose beckoning history shook.
    But you are a man, and see only my pan,
    So I stay at home with a book.”
    Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

  • #6
    Zora Neale Hurston
    “There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
    Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

  • #7
    Toni Morrison
    “You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.”
    Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon

  • #8
    Toni Morrison
    “She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order.”
    Toni Morrison, Beloved

  • #9
    Toni Morrison
    “You are your best thing”
    Toni Morrison, Beloved

  • #10
    Ralph Ellison
    “What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?”
    Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

  • #11
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Either America will destroy ignorance or ignorance will destroy the United States.”
    W.E.B. DuBois

  • #12
    W.E.B. Du Bois
    “Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done and not some future day or future year. It is today that we fit ourselves for the greater usefulness of tomorrow. Today is the seed time, now are the hours of work, and tomorrow comes the harvest and the playtime.”
    W. E. B. Du Bois, Three African-American Classics: Up from Slavery, The Souls of Black Folk and Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

  • #13
    Jacqueline Susann
    “I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy!”
    Jacqueline Susann, Valley of the Dolls

  • #14
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #15
    Jorge Luis Borges
    “Let others pride themselves about how many pages they have written; I'd rather boast about the ones I've read.”
    Jorge Luis Borges

  • #16
    Zona Gale
    “I don't know a better preparation for life than love of poetry and a good digestion”
    Zona Gale

  • #17
    Lewis Carroll
    “People who don't think shouldn't talk.”
    Lewis Carroll

  • #18
    Jay Kristoff
    “Don't f*** with librarians.”
    Jay Kristoff, Darkdawn

  • #19
    Marcel Proust
    “Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #20
    “Again time elapsed.”
    Carolyn Keene, The Secret of the Old Clock



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