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• Somhow those Ten Men -- at the time they were called Recruiters, of course -- discovered that Constance had been at the library. Most likely one of their informants saw her come out, because it was on that very day that the brutes showed up and threatened the librarians. Who told them nothing, incidentally.' 'The same thing happened in Holland,' Kate reflected. 'You'd think these guys would learn their lesson -- librarians know how to keep quiet.' 'It helps to ask politely,' said Mr. Benedict

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Men, Thinking, Guy

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• This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

  John Green

  Book, Unbearable

  "Looking for Alaska". Book by John Green, March 3, 2005.

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• Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Magic, Answers

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• I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If he stole some book he didn't like from the library, or made the radio station play only part of the day on Sunday, or took somebody off to the state poor home, he called it Christian. I never had much religious training, and I never went to Sunday school because we didn't belong to the church when I was old enough to go, but I thought I knew what believing in Christ meant, and it wasn't half the things the preacher did.

  John Kennedy Toole

  Christian, Religious, Book

  John Kennedy Toole (2007). “The Neon Bible”, p.140, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I went to work at the library. I know that sounds crazy but I didn't know where else to go. Besides, at the library I was constantly surrounded by people. And I loved my job, surrounded by so many books, so many lives, so much of the past.

  Christopher Pike

  Jobs, Crazy, Book

  Christopher Pike (1993). “The Eternal Enemy”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• ...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.

  Jim C. Hines

  Church, Bookstores, Closest

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

  Stephen King

  Book, Stories, Speak

  Stephen King (2000). “Salem's Lot”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• In the University library he wandered through the stacks, among the thousands of books, inhaling the musty odor of leather, cloth, and drying page as if it were an exotic incense.

  John Edward Williams

  Book, Odor, Exotic

  John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”

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• I always feel a certain sense of reverence in libraries, even small city ones that smell like homeless internet users.

  Ken Jennings

  Cities, Smell, Internet Users

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• There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Sight, Soul

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)”, p.49, Random House

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• It's a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those

  Iain Banks

  Stupid, Evil

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• If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.

  Carl Sagan

  Book, Lifetime, Week

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.306, Ballantine Books

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• Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.

  Walker Percy

  Hatred, World, Facts

  Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Book, Reading

  Neil Gaiman (2016). “The View from the Cheap Seats: Selected Nonfiction”, p.21, HarperCollins

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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

  Carl Sagan

  Memories, Brain, Genes

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.305, Ballantine Books

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• Librarians lend people books from the library. The best librarians are children's book librarians.

  Richard Scarry

  Children, Book, People

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• There is no greater power on this earth than story.” Will paced the length of the room. “People think boundaries and borders build nations. Nonsense—words do. Beliefs, declarations, constitutions—words. Stories. Myths. Lies. Promises. History.” Will grabbed the sheaf of newspaper clippings he kept in a stack on his desk. “This, and these”—he gestured to the library’s teeming shelves—“they’re a testament to the country’s rich supernatural history.

  Libba Bray

  Country, Lying, Thinking

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• My library is an archive of longings.

  Susan Sontag

  Inspirational, Book, Reading

  Susan Sontag (2012). “As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980”, p.572, Macmillan

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• A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.

  Pat Conroy

  Looks, Shows, Ifs

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Reading Life”, p.17, Nan A. Talese

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• Why are you putting on lip gloss, my daughter?” Dad asked. “Trip to the library? Trip to the nunnery? I hear the nunneries are nice this time of year” … “Is this true, Kami? Are you going out on a date?” Dad asked tragically. “Wearing that? Wouldn’t you fancy a shapeless cardigan instead? You rock a shapeless cardigan, honey.

  Sarah Rees Brennan

  Daughter, Dad, Nice

  Sarah Rees Brennan (2012). “Unspoken (The Lynburn Legacy Book 1)”, p.143, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• The library was one enormous room, with long, high metal shelves and the perfect quiet that libraries provide for anyone looking for an answer.

  Daniel Handler

  Long, Perfect, Answers

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• They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Fire, Mind

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• I'd like to be born the son of a duke with 90,000 pounds a year, on an enormous estate.... And I'd like to have the most enormous library, and I'd like to think that I could read those books forever and forever, and die unlamented, unknown, unsung, unhonored - and packed with information.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Book, Son, Thinking

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• Oh. My. God. They were fighting. In the library. Over her.

  Lauren Kate

  Fighting

  Lauren Kate (2011). “The Fallen Sequence: An Omnibus Edition”, p.246, Delacorte Press

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• It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. Librarians have stood up to the Patriot Act, sat down with noisy toddlers and reached out to illiterate adults. Libraries can never be shushed.

  Paula Poundstone

  Truth, Women, Book

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