#library

Libraries are our friends. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#library

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. ↗

— Anatole France

#lending #library #library

The only thing that you absolutely have to know, is the location of the library. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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What in the world would we do without our libraries? ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

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-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners. -You will not find it. -Why am I not surprised? ↗

— Christine Feehan

#library #manners #order #suggest #manners

What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed. ↗

— Jennifer Donnelly

#library #readers #greed

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands. ↗

— Scott Douglas

#library #quiet-please #librarians

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#art #books #hid #hour #i

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