#library

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#library #wild

Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough. ↗

— William Shakespeare

#poor

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

The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history. ↗

— Lemony Snicket

#history #library #tears #tears

The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library,'The medicines of the soul. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

#reading #library

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ↗

— Lady Bird Johnson

#community #democratic #entrance #interest #library

It took a bit of popcorn and a library snack bar to make me realize that being a librarian was about more than just giving people information. It was about serving a community. And if the community is hungry for more than just knowledge, then maybe it’s about time to open a snack bar. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #library-books #quiet-please #community

People go back to the stuff that doesn't cost a lot of money and the stuff that you don't have to hand money to over and over again. Stuff that you get for free, stuff that your older brother gives you, stuff that you can get out of the local library. ↗

— Frank Black

#back #brother #cost #free #get

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#books #bookstore #branch #chain #city

It was an incredible resource. I'd sit with a big stack of bound New Yorkers in the library and read through, especially the 'Talk of the Town' sections. ↗

— Michael Chabon

#bound #especially #i #incredible #library