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"Once you know what it is in life that you want to do, then the world basically becomes your library. Everything you view, you can view from that perspective, which makes everything a learning asset for you."
"A friend of mine said to me a year ago, "You're so lucky, Nancy, because Ronnie left you the library," She said, "You have that to work on, and to go to, and, in a sense, to be with him." I had never thought of it like that, but it's true. I go to the library or work for the library all the time, because it's Ronnie. I'm working for Ronnie."
"I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger. 'No, and if he were I would burn my library."
"In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks."
"I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on behalf of the souls they never knew they saved."
"Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read books are far less valuable than unread ones."
"There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library."
"A democratic society depends upon an informed and educated citizenry."
"In my view, investing in public libraries is an investment in the nation's future."
"Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!"
"The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind."
"Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers."
"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends."
"There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library, this republic of letters, where neither rank, office, nor wealth receives the slightest consideration."
"The true university of these days is a collection of books."
"It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower."
"Death is an ascension to a better library."
"Libraries are not made, they grow."
"A library is a place where you can live a thousand lives. So why are you waiting when you could be living? Visit your library today."
"As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself."
