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  • There is more treasure in books than in all the pirates' loot on Treasure Island...

    "Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, 1977.
  • I had always thought of Paradise / In form and image as a library.

    Book   Library   Paradise  
    "Poem of the Gifts" (1959) (translation by Alastair Reid)
  • A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.

  • A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.

  • Don't join the book burners... Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book.

    Book   Reading   Library  
    Remarks at Dartmouth College Commencement, Hanover, N.H., 14 June 1953
  • Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

    Funny   Witty   Baby  
  • My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

    Book   Library   World  
  • A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

  • Library books were, I suddenly realized, promiscuous, ready to lie down in the arms of anyone who asked. Not like bookstore books, which married their purchasers, or were brokered for marriages to others.

    Lying   Book   Library  
  • Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1971). “The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Society and solitude”, p.150, Harvard University Press
  • The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

    Mark Twain (2015). “The Prince and the Pauper (StoneHenge Classics)”, p.154, StoneHenge Classics
  • Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.

    Book   Opportunity   Fda  
  • You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!

    Book   Library   World  
  • Corliss had never once considered the fate of library books. She'd never wondered how many books go unread. She loved books. How could she not worry about the unread? She felt like a disorganized scholar, an inconsiderate lover, an abusive mother, and a cowardly soldier.

    Mother   Book   Fate  
    Sherman Alexie (2013). “Ten Little Indians”, p.14, Open Road Media
  • My dad had this outlook: It doesn't matter what I want to read - reading was a good thing. So whatever I was curious about they'd get for me from the library. Books were a kind of a resistance to reality. I liked to imagine worlds that were different. I still do.

    Dad   Reading   Book  
    "Love in the Time of Mass Migration". Interview With Alexander Sammon, www.motherjones.com. March 4, 2017.
  • You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

    Book   Library   Want  
    Elizabeth Kostova (2008). “The Historian”, Little, Brown
  • One of the things we learned from that panel is the way poor communities use a library is very different from wealthy communities. But the way the library books are measured are by how many books are taken out. And people in poor communities sometimes won't take the book out because they're afraid to. They're afraid of losing it and not being able to replace it.

    Book   Taken   People  
    "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.
  • The library is the temple of learning.

  • Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us.

    Book   Library   Stories  
    Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.16, Simon and Schuster
  • One cannot celebrate books sufficiently. After saying his best, still something better remains to be spoken in their praise. As with friends, one finds new beauties at every interview, and would stay long in the presence of those choice companions. As with friends, he may dispense with a wide acquaintance. Few and choice. The richest minds need not large libraries.

    Book   Long   Choices  
    Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”, p.5
  • My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

    Life   Education   Book  
    Malcolm X (2015). “The Autobiography of Malcolm X”, p.187, Ballantine Books
  • Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.

    Book   Voice   Mind  
  • If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries.

    Wise   Strong   Book  
    Saturday Review, p. 44, October 29, 1960.
  • It may not seem like much, but think of the consequences. One overdue library book today, the collapse of the universe by the end of the week.

    Fun   Book   Thinking  
  • When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.

    Reading   Book   Night  
    Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.27, Vintage
  • Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

    Book   4th Of July   Men  
    Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence and Papers, 1816-1826”, p.210, Cosimo, Inc.
  • A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.

  • I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

    Nature   Book   Reading  
    "Dreamtigers". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1960.
  • I read library books as fast as I could go, rushing them home in the basket of my bicycle. From the minute I reached our house, I started to read. Every book I seized on, from “Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue at Camp Rest-a-While” to “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” stood for the devouring wish to read being instantly granted. I knew this was bliss, knew it at the time. Taste isn’t nearly so important; it comes in its own time.

    Book   Home   Sea  
  • If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are its banks.

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