"I was a very keen reader of science fiction, and during the time I was going to libraries, it was good, written by people who knew their science."
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"Truthfully, without over-egging it, as I often do, the library and journalism, those things made me who I am."
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"A library is all the university you will ever need."
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"You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films."
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"It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement."
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"The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want."
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"But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read."
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"No use going to class unless you go to the library."
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"... bums on the outside, libraries inside."
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"What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?"
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"E-books are impervious to analogy."
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"A large library is apt to distract rather than to instruct the learner; it is much better to be confined to a few authors than to wander at random over many."
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"The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders."
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"Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us."
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"A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID."
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"...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine."
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"As a kid, death seemed boring to me. As an adult, I think that it seems more like a waste of everything. Somebody once said every time a professor dies, a library burns."
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"Ordinary performers have giant TVs. Extraordinary performers have huge libraries."
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"Your library teacher would say, "What happens to a generation that doesn't read the Classics?" Me, I'm not your library teacher. But I have some of the same questions and concerns, you know?"
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"I want to have schools and libraries and other institutions named after me. I tell my daughter that all the time."
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