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People who want to understand democracy should spend less time in the library with Aristotle and more time on the buses and in the subway. ↗


— Simeon Strunsky


#buses #democracy #less #library #more

It was a common complaint amongst the Arts students that their library was in dire need of refurbishment. To call the old building shabby chic was being kind. It didn’t have automated stacks or self-service machines like the Management and Sciences library the other side of campus and the carpets and bookcases looked like they were probably the Victorian originals. But on days like this one, where the springtime sunshine streamed in through the high windows and set the dust motes dancing, Harriet sincerely felt that those BSc lot could stuff their vending machines and state of the art study pods. The Old Library was clearly suited for those who had poetry in their souls, rather than numbers in their heads. ↗


— Erin Lawless


#students #university #art

Since at least the Sixth Century all librarians have received extensive combat training and are lethal with even the common toothpick. ↗


— James Turner


#science

Not me, of course, as I am now officially a spinster librarian and must stay home with my cat and drink tea. ↗


— Eleanor Brown


#librarians

I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. ↗


— Jane Austen


#library #reading #read

A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them. ↗


— Lemony Snicket


#reading #read

[D]on't ever apologize to an author for buying something in paperback, or taking it out from a library (that's what they're there for. Use your library). Don't apologize to this author for buying books second hand, or getting them from bookcrossing or borrowing a friend's copy. What's important to me is that people read the books and enjoy them, and that, at some point in there, the book was bought by someone. And that people who like things, tell other people. The most important thing is that people read... ↗


— Neil Gaiman


#libraries #library #reading #read

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid. ↗


— Joan Bauer


#library #stupidity

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one. ↗


— Neil Gaiman


#librarians #internet

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man ↗


— T.S. Eliot


#humanity #library #future






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