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"For the slow labor of realizing a potential gift the artist must retreat to those Bohemias, halfway between the slums and the library, where life is not counted by the clock and where the talented may be sure they will be ignored until that time, if it ever comes, when their gifts are viable enough to be set free and survive in the world."
"Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into waist-high stacks of books everywhere, piled haphazardly against the walls. If just one of them moved... the domino effect could engulf the three of us in an asphyxiating mass of literature."
"My encouragement to you is to go tomorrow to the library."
"... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker."
"You asked me where I generally lived. In my workshop [i.e. in his study] in the mornings and always in the library in the evening. Books are companions even if you don’t open them."
"His mind was indeed my library, and whenever it was opened to me, I entered bliss."
"A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles."
"One of the things that people don't do enough of when they do psychedelic work is spend time in the library."
"You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature. Then, you can pick the one thing you love most and write about it."
"Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library."
"Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?"
"He who has a garden and a library wants for nothing."
"The colonists had no library at their disposal; but the engineer was a book which was always at hand, always open at the page which one wanted, a book which answered all their questions, and which they often consulted."
"...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her."
"Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information."
"I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else."
"Information is the manager's main tool, indeed the manager's capital, and it is he who must decide what information he needs and how to use it."
"There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed."
"library is a beautiful old thing"
"I cannot overstate the power of libraries in my life."
