#librarians

Now you may have gotten the impression that there are absolutely no uses for Librarians. I'm sorry if I implied that. Librarians are very useful. For instance, they are useful if you are fishing for sharks and need some bait. They're also useful for throwing out windows to test the effects of concrete impact on horn-rimmed glasses. If you have enough Librarians, you can build bridges out of them. (Just like witches.) And, unfortunately, they are also useful for organizing things. ↗

— Brandon Sanderson

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But you want murderous feelings? Hang around librarians," confided Gamache. "All that silence. Gives them ideas. ↗

— Louise Penny

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In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste. ↗

— Marilyn Johnson

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In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us to swim. ↗

— Linton Weeks

#libraries #washington-post #information

...killing rats wasn’t in my job description. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #quiet-please #description

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. ↗

— Erma Bombeck

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Mr. Powell raised an eyebrow. 'I'm a librarian,' he said. 'I always know what I'm talking about. ↗

— Gary D. Schmidt

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Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink. ↗

— Barbara Pym

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She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged. ↗

— Gary Paulsen

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To Homer, libraries were holy places like churches, and the priestly librarians a blessed race, a saving remnant in a world of sin. Whenever God grew impatient and decided to destroy the world he remembered the librarians and stayed his hand. ↗

— Jane Langton

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