Library quotations

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◆ My library is an archive of longings.

- Susan Sontag99

◆ Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

- Maya Angelou99

◆ A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.

- Shelby Foote99

◆ That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

- Aphra Behn99

◆ A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.

- Lemony Snicket99

◆ The world is quiet here.

- Lemony Snicket99

◆ My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

- Joan Bauer99

◆ 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 Woolf99

◆ The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man

- T.S. Eliot99

◆ It was good to walk into a library again; it smelled like home.

- Elizabeth Kostova99

◆ I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

- H.P. Lovecraft99

◆ 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 France99

◆ Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

- Isaac Asimov99

◆ When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.

- Haruki Murakami99

◆ I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

- Barbara Kingsolver99