Library Quotes - Page 35

• The justices have constitutionally protected obscenity in libraries, filth over cable television, and now unlimited internet pornography.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Justice, Television, Filth

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• I am afraid that all the grace that I have got of my comfortable and easy times and happy hours, might almost lie on a penny. But the good that I have received from my sorrows, and pains, and griefs, is altogether incalculable … Affliction is the best bit of furniture in my house. It is the best book in a minister’s library.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Pain, Lying, Grief

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2011). “We Shall See God: Charles Spurgeon's Classic Devotional Thoughts on Heaven”, p.298, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole.

  Sergey Brin

  Book, Black, Majority

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• Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publication, the free press as we know it disappears. Then the spectre of a government agent will look over the shoulder of everyone who reads. ... Fear of criticism goes with every person into the bookstall. The subtle, imponderable pressures of the orthodox lay hold. Some will fear to read what is unpopular, what the powers-that-be dislike. ... fear will take the place of freedom in the libraries, book stores, and homes in the land.

  William O. Douglas

  Book, Home, Government

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• Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it. And, Oprah, can you imagine curling up in bed to read a computer? Weeping for Anna Karenina and being terrified by Hannibal Lecter, entering the heart of darkness with Mistah Kurtz, having Holden Caulfield ring you up — some things should happen on soft pages, not cold metal.

  Harper Lee

  Book, Heart, Phones

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• Bookstores, like libraries, are the physical manifestation of the wide world's longest, most thrilling conversation.

  Richard Russo

  Bookstores, World, Conversation

  FaceBook post by Richard Russo from Feb 15, 2013

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• Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

  Rita Dove

  Book, Feelings, Asking

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• There are distinct duties of a poet laureate. I plan a reading series at the Library of Congress and advise the librarian. The rest is how I want to promote poetry

  Rita Dove

  Reading, Aggravation, Want

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• I began reading everyhing in the family library. Kidnapped, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe. And of course, if you're running out of books to read you can always read Shakespeare.

  Robin Hobb

  Running, Reading, Book

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• In a few years, men will be able to communicate more effectively through a machine than face to face. That is a rather startling thing to say, but it is our conclusion.

  J. C. R. Licklider

  Believe, Book, Men

  "In memoriam, J.C.R. Licklider, 1915-1990".

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• However, I survived and started to read all chemistry books that I could get a hand on, first some 19th century books from our home library that did not provide much reliable information, and then I emptied the rather extensive city library.

  Richard Ernst

  Book, Home, Hands

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• I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life.

  Linus Pauling

  Book, Writing, College

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• How do you explain to somebody who doesn't understand that you don't build a library to read. A library is a resource. Something you go to, for reference, as and when. But also something you simply look at, because it gives you succour, answers to some idea of who you are or, more to the point, who you would like to be, who you will be once you own every book you need to own.

  Howard Jacobson

  Book, Ideas, Giving

  Howard Jacobson (2011). “Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It”, p.101, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If peace had a smell,it would be the smell of a library full of old, leather-bound books.

  Mark Pryor

  Book, Smell, Would Be

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• Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

  George William Curtis

  Book, Reading, Lamps

  George William Curtis (1894). “Orations and Addresses”

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• A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.

  Frank Westheimer

  Couple, Months, Hours

  "Murphy, Parkinson, and Peter: Laws for librarians" by Jean E. Crampon, Library Journal 113. no. 17 (p. 41), October 15, 1988.

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• Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don’t think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Teacher, Thinking, Neighborhood

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• If you can't find an answer at the mall or the library, what does that say about the world?

  Joan Bauer

  Doe, Answers, World

  Joan Bauer (2005). “Thwonk”, p.84, Penguin

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• Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Dream, Factories

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• Every time a shaman dies, it is as if a library burned down.

  Mark Plotkin

  Burned, Dies, Ifs

  "Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Amazon Rain Forest". Book by Mark J. Plotkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 1994.

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• As a child I spent a lot of time at the library.

  Tracy Chapman

  Children

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• At this time on a weekday morning, the library was refuge to the retired, the unemployed, and the unemployable. ... 'I'm not always this gabby,' the librarian said. 'It's just so nice to talk to someone who isn't constructing a conspiracy theory or watching videos of home accidents on YouTube.

  Myla Goldberg

  Morning, Nice, Home

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• If minds are truly alive they will seek out books, for books are the human race recounting its memorable experiences, confronting its problems, searching for solutions, drawing the blueprints of it futures.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Book, Reading, Memorable

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• He that revels in a well-chosen library, has innumerable dishes, and all of admirable flavour.

  William Godwin

  Flavor, Dishes, Admirable

  "The Enquirer: Reflections on Education, Manners and Literature, in a Series of Essays".

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• Love of reading enables a man to exchange the weary hours, which come to every one, for hours of delight.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Reading, Men, Delight

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