#library

No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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When I think of the library of Alexandria and of the fact that, although it burnt down, people continue to sort the letters of the alphabet according to that tradition, then that makes certain expressions of modernity, even of interventions on the textual level, possible. ↗

— Alexander Kluge

#alexandria #alphabet #although #burnt #certain

I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read. ↗

— Charles Kuralt

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The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. ↗

— Carl T. Rowan

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I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts. ↗

— Walter Wager

#delusion #i #keep #library #manuscripts

I wanted to be in a band that gave bang for the buck. I wanted to be in the band who didn't look like a bunch of guys who, you know, should be in a library studying for their finals. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#bang #buck #bunch #finals #gave

We didn't have a phone when I was a kid, and I was too shy to smash any public phones, and our town didn't have a pool hall either, so I had to hang out at the public library - and anyway, I told myself stories. ↗

— John Sladek

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Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher. ↗

— Bjarne Stroustrup

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The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need. ↗

— Kate Capshaw

#becomes #best #emotion #get #go

Just the omission of Jane Austen's books alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it. ↗

— Mark Twain

#jane-austen #library