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• In the candle's flickering light, the library's thousands of books emerged from the shadows, and for a moment Nicholas could not help admiring them again. During free time he had almost never looked up from the pages he was reading, but now he saw the books anew, from without rather than from within, and was reminded of how beautiful they were simply as objects. The geometrical wonder of them all, each book on its own and all the books together, row upon row, the infinite patterns and possibilities they presented. They were truly lovely.

  Trenton Lee Stewart

  Love, Beautiful, Book

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• There are far too many people for us to think about each of them during our short stay on earth—like the thousands of books in a library we haven’t time to read in an afternoon. But this is no excuse to cease browsing. For every now and then, we find that one book that reaches us deep inside and introduces us to ourselves. And, in someone else’s story, we come to understand our own.

  Richard Paul Evans

  Book, Thinking, People

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• Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.

  Marisha Pessl

  Making Love, Littles, Cards

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• Our lips met hungrily, and his clever artistic hands wrapped around my hips. A sudden buzz from my regular cell phone startled me from the kissing. "Don't," said Adrian, his eyes ablaze and breathing ragged. "What if there's a crisis at school?" I asked. "What if Angeline 'accidentally' stole one of the campus buses and drove it into the library?" "Why would she do that?" "Are you saying she wouldn't?" He sighed. "Go check it.

  Richelle Mead

  Clever, School, Eye

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• Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

  Ray Bradbury

  Boys, Thinking, Giving

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• When trouble strikes, head to the library. You will either be able to solve the problem, or simply have something to read as the world crashes down around you.

  Daniel Handler

  World, Able, Problem

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• What happened?” she breathed, staring at me. “I got hit in the face with a pie,” I said. Mags stopped, blinking. “You got...hit in the face with a pie,” she repeated. “I...what? I’m sorry, but I’ve been in charge of this Library for a long time. I’ve seen a lot of really ridiculous things. I lived in Wales. And there is no way being hit with a pie should have turned you human.” “It was a really evil pie,” I said.

  Mira Grant

  Sorry, Should Have, Pie

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• Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Boys, Public Library, Dies

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.332, Scholastic Inc.

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• The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

  Jamie Ford

  Stores, Candy Stores, Candy

  Jamie Ford (2013). “Songs of Willow Frost: A Novel”, p.39, Ballantine Books

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• I always get lost in the library,' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

  Rainbow Rowell

  Thinking, Matter, Facts

  Rainbow Rowell (2016). “The Rainbow Rowell YA Collection”, p.340, St. Martin's Griffin

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• ...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.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Book, Wilderness, Bliss

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.598, e-artnow

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• Sydney had been horrified to discover my home library consisted of a bartending dictionary and an old copy of Esquire, and at her pleading, I'd promised to read something more substantial. I was trying to think deep thoughts as I read Gatsby, but mostly I wanted to throw some parties.

  Richelle Mead

  Party, Home, Thinking

  Richelle Mead (2013). “The Fiery Heart: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.66, Penguin

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• With a library it is easier to hope for serendipity than to look for a precise answer.

  Daniel Handler

  Serendipity, Looks, Answers

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• Somebody insults you and you feel anger. Don't miss this opportunity; try to understand why, why this anger. And don't make it a philosophical thing. Don't go to the library to consult about anger. Anger is happening to you -- it is an experience, a live experience. Focus your whole attention on it and try to understand why it is happening to you. It is not a philosophical problem. No Freud is to be consulted about it. There is no need! It is just foolish to consult somebody else while anger is happening to you. You can touch it. You can taste it. You will be burned by it.

  Rajneesh

  Anger, Philosophical, Opportunity

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• Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

  Mortimer Adler

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "How To Read A Book". Book by Mortimer J. Adler, 1940.

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• The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.

  Milton Berle

  Funny, Hilarious, Women

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• We are drowning in information
  but starved for knowledge.

  John Naisbitt

  Reading, Book, Knowledge

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• In a recent fire Bob Dole's library burned down. Both books were lost. And he hadn't even finished coloring one of them.

  Jack Kemp

  Book, Fire, Bob

  "Dole, in Choosing Kemp, Buried A Bitter Past Rooted in Doctrine" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.nytimes.com. September 29, 1996.

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• I am a public library

  Tony Benn

  Politics, Public Library

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• Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
  Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms,
  Strong and content I travel the open road.

  Walt Whitman

  Travel, Strong, Criticism

  1856 Leaves of Grass, 'Song of the Open Road', section 1.

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• Those moments when you feel you want to read something truly beautiful. The eyes make a tour of the library, and there is nothing. Then you decide to take no matter what, and it is full of beautiful things.

  Jules Renard

  Beautiful, Book, Eye

  Jules Renard (2008). “The Journal of Jules Renard”, p.138, Tin House Books

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• Some cleric putting a match to her. /Neither of them looks happy about it. /Once lit, she'll burn like a book, /like a book that was ever finished, /like a locked-up library.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Looks, Locked Up

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Door”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But there is no end to the praise of books, to the value of the library. Who shall estimate their influence on our population where all the millions read and write ? It is the joy of nations that man can communicate all his thoughts, discoveries and virtues to records that may last for centuries.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Book, Writing, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1921). “Representative men. Miscellanies”

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• The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks.

  Michael Dirda

  Book, World, Needs

  Michael Dirda (2007). “Book by Book: Notes on Reading and Life”, p.116, Macmillan

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• The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!

  William E. Gladstone

  Book, House, Unhappy

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