"I never went to college, so I went to the library."
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"Literature is born when something in life goes slightly adrift."
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"Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."
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"Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless."
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"A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it."
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"Libraries are the wardrobes of literature."
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"A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us."
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"Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors."
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"Libraries should be open to all - except the censor. [Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]"
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"The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
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"A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France."
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"Libraries are the one American institution you shouldn't rip off."
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"Unlearned men of books assume the care, As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair."
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"..you do not leave a library; if you do what it wants you to do, you are taking it with you."
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"Dear me, how I love a library."
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"We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library"
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"Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries."
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"Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation."
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"Although I enjoy digging through the library to help students find books, my aim is to help them develop self-confidence in choosing books for themselves."
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"This whole phenomenon of the computer in a library is an amazing thing."
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