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• And the smell of the library was always the same - the musty odour of old clothes mixed with the keener scent of unwashed bodies, creating what the chief librarian had once described as 'the steam of the social soup.'

  Peter Ackroyd

  Smell, Clothes, Creating

  1987 Chatterton, ch.5.

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• ...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

  Stephen King

  Knowing, Library, Sitting

  Stephen King (2016). “It: A Novel”, p.494, Simon and Schuster

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• I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.

  Isaac Asimov

  Book, Reading, School

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• You can't argue with someone who believes, or just passionately suspects, that the poet's function is not to write what he must write but, rather, to write what he would write if his life depended on his taking responsibility for writing what he must in a style designed to shut out as few of his old librarians as humanly possible.

  J. D. Salinger

  Believe, Writing, Responsibility

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• I found the idea of being a librarian very appealing--working in a place where people had to whisper and only speak when necessary. If only the world were like that!

  Peter Cameron

  Ideas, People, World

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.55, Macmillan

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• So, when people try to give you some book with a shiny round award on the cover, be kind and gracious, but tell them you don't read "fantasy," because you prefer stories that are real. Then come back here and continue your research on the cult of evil Librarians who secretly rule the world.

  Brandon Sanderson

  Real, Book, Awards

  Brandon Sanderson (2017). “Brandon Sanderson's Fantasy Firsts: (The Way of Kings, Mistborn: The Final Empire, Rithmatist, Alcatraz vs. The Evil Librarians)”, p.2399, Macmillan

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• It was at our library that I found Nancy Drew and fell in love with the genre. I've been grateful ever since for those tolerant, book-loving librarians who allowed a child like me to read what I wanted to read.

  Nancy Pickard

  Children, Book, Grateful

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• Banks aren't neutral observers, they're ... the people who caused the mess. It's like someone who's wet themselves in a public building insisting they choose which mop the librarian fetches to clear up the puddle.

  Mark Steel

  People, Puddles, Fetch

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• Library Science is the key to all science, just as mathematics is its language - and civilization will rise or fall, depending on how well librarians do their jobs.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Jobs, Fall, Keys

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• I went to the librarian and asked for a book about stars.... And the answer was stunning. It was that the Sun was a star but really close. The stars were suns, but so far away they were just little points of light.... The scale of the universe suddenly opened up to me. It was a kind of religious experience. There was a magnificence to it, a grandeur, a scale which has never left me. Never ever left me.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Stars, Book

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• I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

  Patrick Carman

  Library, Walks

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• There's something darn funny about an old librarian with a potty mouth.

  Patrick Carman

  Mouths, Potty, Potty Mouth

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• Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to find, where to look, how to see.

  Jodi Picoult

  Looks, Taught

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “The Pact: A Love Story”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• The Burgess sisters arrived together. Tara and Lainie do a little bit of everything. Sometimes dancers, sometimes actresses. Once they were librarians, but that is a subject they will only discuss if heavily intoxicated.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dancer, Together, Littles

  FaceBook post by Erin Morgenstern from Mar 25, 2013

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• Unlearned men of books assume the care,
  As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.

  Edward Young

  Book, Men, Library

  Edward Young, John Doran, James Nichols (1854). “The Complete Works, Poetry and Prose of the Rev. Edward Young, LL.D.: Revised and Collated with the Earliest Editions. To which is Prefixed A Life of the Author”, p.357

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• A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country unless she or he is a lawyer who is in the position to determine what he or she is looking at is indeed child pornography.

  Judith Krug

  Country, Children, Lawyer

  "Libraries vs. Police in a Suit Sparked by Porn; Kent Case Centers on People's Rights and Protections" by Jeffrey M. Barker, August 13, 2002.

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• I was rescued by librarians. It was librarians who said 'maybe you would like to read The Hardy Boys as well as Nancy Drew.' It is true for me, as for so many countless others, that librarians saved my life, my internal life.

  Gloria Steinem

  Boys, Nancy, Said

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• stereotypes are awfully misleading. There are typical librarians, but not all librarians are typical.

  Barbara Mertz

  Typical, Stereotype, Mislead

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• My own feminist revolution evolved slowly, and traveled the world with me. To this day I have no idea what dissident professor or librarian placed feminist tests on the bookshelves at the university library in Jeddah, but I found them there. They filled me with terror. I understood they were pulling at a thread that would unravel everything. Now that I am older, I can see that feeling terrified is how you recognize what you need. Terror encourages you to jump, even when you don't know if you will ever land.

  Mona Eltahawy

  Land, Ideas, Feminist

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• Perhaps the two most valuable and satisfactory products of American civilization are the librarian on the one hand and the cocktail in the other.

  Louis Stanley

  Hands, Civilization, Two

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• My parents have not insisted that we go to college, but she wanted us to learn. Teacher, librarian, secretary, nurse. All my siblings were employed. But I wanted to be the boss, an independent contractor.

  Bette Midler

  Teacher, Sibling, Independent

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• I always wanted to be a writer! But I wanted to do other things, too - be a psychologist, a librarian, et cetera. Now Ive decided that reading fiction that features characters who are in those professions will do.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  Reading, Character, Fiction

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• Libraries have always seemed like the richest places in the world to me, and I?ve done some of my best learning and thinking thanks to them. Libraries and librarians have definitely changed my life ? and the lives of countless other Americans.

  Barbara Bush

  Thinking, Library, Done

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• I've always loved children. When I was working with children as a librarian, I loved being with them and working around them.

  Laura Bush

  Children, Working With Children

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Librarians open up the world. Knowledge is useless if you don't even know where to begin to look. How much more can you discover when someone can point you in the right direction, when someone can maybe even give you a treasure map, to places you may not have even thought you were allowed to go? This is what librarians do.

  Patrick Ness

  Giving, Useless, World

  "Patrick Ness accepts Carnegie medal with fierce defence of libraries". Patrick Ness' acceptance speech at the Carnegie Medal, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2011.

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