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#librarians

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Never argue with a librarian; they know too much. ↗


— Carole Nelson Douglas


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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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But about the drip drip of long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. They don't know what it is to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the laundrette. Or to sit in a darkened flat on Halloween night, because you can't bear to expose your bleak evening to a crowd of jeering trick-or-treaters. Or to have the librarian smile pityingly and say, ‘Goodness, you're a quick reader!’ when you bring back seven books, read from cover to cover, a week after taking them out. They don't know what it is to be so chronically untouched that the accidental brush of a bus conductor's hand on your shoulder sends a jolt of longing straight to your groin. ↗


— Zoë Heller


#loneliness #writers #librarians

Books are only half our job ; the other half is human nature. ↗


— Mary Virginia Provines


#human-nature #job #librarians #library #people

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


— Scott Douglas


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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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