Without the library, you have no civilization.
Ray BradburyTag: libraries civilization ray-bradbury
Welcome young poet, in here you are free
to follow your star to where you should be.
That door of the library was the door into me
And Lorca and Shelley said “Come to the feast.”
Whitechapel Library, Aldgate East.
I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
David Foster WallaceInterlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.
Jo WaltonTag: libraries civilization
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
Siri HustvedtTag: libraries sexuality dreams languor
A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing spring in the desert.
Andrew CarnegieTag: libraries books community enrich
I have an unshaken conviction that democracy can never be undermined if we maintain our library resources and a national intelligence capable of utilizing them."
[Letter to Herbert Putnam; in: Waters, Edward N.: Herbert Putnam: the tallest little man in the world; Quarterly Journal of the Library of Congress 33:2 (April 1976), p. 171]
Tag: libraries education democracy
It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.
Jo WaltonTag: libraries
Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for.
Brian SelznickTag: libraries
Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.
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