The patron gets comfortable in bed and opens up the book -- it opens tentatively -- and the patron bends the open book backward until there is a satisfying crack and the book is a little more supple, a little easier to read. The book spine has just been broken, and a broken spine means a more submissive book.
Don BorchertThe library knows that it is a temporary fix. We have a stamp for the inside front cover: BROKEN SPINE NOTED. It is like a bracelet worn by a diabetic. When you return the book with this message stamped inside, we know you're not the one responsible for this horrible thing. It was some other bastard before you. The book has a preexisting condition.
Don BorchertTags: books library patrons damaged
Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Claudia Alta JohnsonTags: library
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
Anatole FranceTh' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.
Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.
But th' shelf is th' main thing.
That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
Aphra BehnIn a few minutes I heard the books' voices: a low, steady, unsupressible hum. I'd heard it many times before. I've always had a finely tuned ear for a library's accumulations of echo and desire. Libraries are anything but hushed.
Martha CooleyI attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.
Barbara KingsolverImagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.
Isaac AsimovTags: science school writing belief home thought ignorance shame bible library the-bible resentment leader bitter childish childish-beliefs guide guides ignore imagine invade leaders uneducated unimaginative unthinking
What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about education.
Harold HoweTags: libraries education school library
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