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Library Quotes (page 8)

Our library isn't very extensive," said Anne, "but every book in it is a friend. We've picked our books up through the years, here and there, never buying one until we had first read it and knew that it belonged to the race of Joseph. L. M. Montgomery
Jim Rohn quote: "Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs"
Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs Jim Rohn
I don't know if you know it, J.B., but you're the sort of fellow who causes hundreds to fall under suspicion when he's found stabbed in his library with a paper-knife of Oriental design. P. G. Wodehouse
Cecil B. DeMille quote: "Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but..."
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. Cecil B. DeMille
William Shakespeare quote: "Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own..."
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom. William Shakespeare
I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that? Ray Bradbury
[W]hen I put Jorge in the library I did not yet know he was the murderer. He acted on his own, so to speak. And it must not be thought that this is an 'idealistic' position, as if I were saying that the characters have an autonomous life and the author, in a kind of trance, makes them behave as they themselves direct him. That kind of nonsense belongs in term papers. The fact is that the characters are obliged to act according to the laws of the world in which they live. In other words,... Umberto Eco
The fact is that poetry is not the books in the library . . . Poetry is the encounter of the reader with the book, the discovery of the book. Jorge Luis Borges
I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a minute at the soft hinted green in the branches against the sky and wishing, as I always did, that I could walk home across the sky instead of through the village. Shirley Jackson
Day and night she had drudged and struggled and thrown her soul into her work, and there was not much of her left over for anything else. Being human, she suffered from this lack and did what she could to make up for it. If she passed the evening bent over a table in the library and later declared that she had spent that time playing cards, it was as though she had managed to do both those things. Through the lies, she lived vicariously. The lies doubled the little of her existence that was... Carson McCullers
Go anywhere you wish, talk to everyone. Ask any questions; you will be given answers. When you want to learn, you will be taught. Use the library. Open any book. Terry Prachett
Jacqueline Susann quote: "I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk..."
I've got a library copy of Gone with the Wind, a quart of milk and all these cookies. Wow! What an orgy! Jacqueline Susann
John Donne quote: "Death is an ascension to a better library."
Death is an ascension to a better library. John Donne
The American people want to know that when they borrow a book from the library or buy a book, the government won't be looking over their shoulder. Everybody wants to fight terrorism, but we have to do it in away that protects American freedom. Bernard Sanders
Margaret Atwood quote: "Some people write letters, in the library."
Some people write letters, in the library. Margaret Atwood

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