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"I do a lot of research for my books. I can't possibly know all the things I write about and I love learning new things. I spend hours and hours doing research in books, libraries and online. [Once] I traveled to the reservation to get the settings and the flavor of the place down right."
"It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the small library. (Al)"
"Libraries and demons," she muttered. "What is the attraction?"
"I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
"With enough libraries, all content is free."
"Surrounded by stories surreal and sublime, I fell in Love in the Library once upon a time."
"Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind."
"I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library."
"Yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso / Bajo la especie de una biblioteca. I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library."
"In truth, the Library includes all verbal structures, all variations permitted by the twenty-five orthographical symbols, but not a single example of absolute nonsense."
"Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety."
"If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached."
"Each time someone dies, a library burns."
"I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground."
"Information helps you to see that you're not alone. That there's somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who have wept, who've all longed and lost, who've all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you're not really any different from everyone else."
"Then the question began to live under my blankets: How did lesbianism begin? What were the symptoms? The public library gave information on the finished lesbian--and that woefully sketchy--but on the growth of a lesbian, there was nothing. I did discover that the difference between hermaphrodites and lesbians was that hermaphrodites were "born that way." It was impossible to determine whether lesbians budded gradually, or burst into being with a suddenness that dismayed them as much as it repelled society."
"I have a huge music library and deliberately choose the piece of music to match the piece I'm writing. So, every book I write has its own "soundtrack.""
"You can take the girl out of the library, but you can’t take the neurotic, compulsively curious librarian out of the girl."
"Some people say I have issues. I say those people need to expand their horizons because I don't have issues, I have the Library of Congress"
"I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library."
