All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the American public has been making for over thirty years.
Avi SteinbergI was pretty sure I'd just had a nerdgasm.
Nicole PeelerTags: libraries
...bookstores, libraries... they're the closest thing I have to a church.
Jim C. HinesTags: libraries bookstores bibliophiles
I like libraries. It's a comfort that knowledge can be save for so long. That what we learn can be passed on.
Jackson PearceTags: libraries
An ancient mustiness padded the air, tinged with with an acrid scent-a trace of the war between paper and oxygen, played out in slow inexorable burn that would one day crumble this empire to dust." -page 62
Jennifer Lee CarrellThere 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 PratchettReading is important.
Books are important.
Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among the stacks.)
Tags: libraries reading books newbery-medal-acceptance-speech
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 SaganTags: science libraries humanity memory humans library archives humanity-and-society communal-memory
A library is a different kind of social reality (of the three dimensional kind), which by its very existence teaches a system of values beyond the fiscal.
Zadie SmithTags: libraries library britain
Inside the front flap of the book were handwritten names of the dozen or so people who had checked the book out before Naomi. Instead of writing her name, Naomi had a thin paper receipt with the due date printed on it. She could never possess this book the way those other people had. It was one of those uselessly nostalgic and sentimental thoughts that serve only our own romantic ideals, but I couldn't help believing it was true nonetheless. I took a pencil out from behind the register and handed it to her.
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