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Library Quotes (page 11)

John Ciardi quote: "The public library is the most dangerous place in town"
The public library is the most dangerous place in town John Ciardi
Ray Bradbury quote: "There's no use going to school unless your final destination..."
There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library. Ray Bradbury
It would seem that emotions are the curse, not death-emotions that appear to have developed upon a few freaks as a special curse from Malevolence. All right then. It is our emotions that are amiss. We are freaks, the world is fine, and let us all go have lobotomies to restore us to a natural state. We can leave the library then, go back to the creek lobotomized, and live on its banks as untroubled as any muskrat or reed. You first. Annie Dillard
The Poet at the Breakfast Table: My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them. Franklin D. Roosevelt
Book lovers love books!" her mother announced. "There's romance about the books- even having them seems to have a kind of excitement."from Mr. Linden's Library by Walter Dean Myers Chris Van Allsburg
You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A lot of the people whose work they’ve taught in the schools for the last thirty years, I can’t understand why people read them and why they are taught. The library, on the... Ray Bradbury
Bessie asked if I would have a book: the word book acted as a transient stimulus, and I begged her to fetch Gulliver’s Travels from the library. This book I had again and again perused with delight. Charlotte Bronte
What began as downsizing went on to wholesale abandonment. Schools closed, libraries and academies shut their doors, professional grammarians and teachers of rhetoric found themselves out of work. There were more important things to worry about than the fate of books. Stephen Greenblatt
Brooks Adams quote: "I need a sitting room where I can entertain my friends, but I..."
I need a sitting room where I can entertain my friends, but I must have a library where my books entertain me. Brooks Adams
Allen Ginsberg quote: "America, why are your libraries full of tears?"
America, why are your libraries full of tears? Allen Ginsberg
Thomas Fuller quote: "A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more..."
A few books well chosen, and well made use of will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library. Thomas Fuller
If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds. David McCullough
When yous steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void. Piers Anthony
There were books about how to be gay; he'd seen them in stores and libraries. Some of them even had diagrams. But there weren't any diagrams about how to fall in love with your best friend and not fuck everything up. Poppy Z. Brite

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