#libraries

My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library indeed. Under the slightly blackened rafters and more than slightly caved-in walls, my mother lived and read and dreamed, allowing herself to grow closer and closer to Compleat, to notice more and more how fine and straight his shelves remained, despite great structural stress. That sort of moral fortitude is rare in this day and age. By and by, my siblings and I were born and romped on the balconies, raced up and down the splintered ladders, and pored over many encyclopedias and exciting novels. I know just everything about everything—so long as it beings with A through L. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#age

People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#lives #lose #ought #people #their

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ↗

— Josh Billings

#awake #everywhere #learning #libraries #sleeps

You come to work because the office is a resource: The office is a place where you can meet with other people, and the office has libraries of books and information on CD-ROM that might help you with your work. ↗

— Jay Chiat

#books #cd-rom #come #help #information

Don't mark up the Library's copy, you fool! Librarians are Unprankable. They'll track you down! They have skills! ↗

— Charles Ogden

#librarians #libraries #library

Rule number one: Don't fuck with librarians. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#fact #libraries #library

Nothing is pleasanter to me than exploring in a library. ↗

— Walter Savage Landor

#libraries #library #library

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them. ↗

— Nicholas Meyer

#civilized #civilized society #cornerstones #exist #good

A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. ↗

— Caitlin Moran

#libraries #profound #imagination

Who’s to say what a ‘literary life’ is? As long as you are writing often, and writing well, you don’t need to be hanging-out in libraries all the time. Nightclubs are great literary research centers. So is Ibiza! ↗

— Roman Payne

#ibiza #libraries #lifestyle #literary #literary-life