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• The library is like a candy store where everything is free.

  Jamie Ford

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• The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They’re mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.

  Leslie Knope

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• For to know a man’s library is, in some measure, to know his mind.

  Geraldine Brooks

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• A library is infinity under a roof.

  Gail Carson Levine

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• But a library is a gorgeous language that you will never speak fluently.

  Elizabeth McCracken

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• A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

  Catherynne M. Valente

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  When an old man dies, a library burns to the ground.

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  There’s no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

  Ray Bradbury

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• I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

  Michael Sims

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• I have a home-school group with a couple of my friends. We switch off going to each others’ houses and going to the library to do art and stuff. It’s almost like our own little school – a really little school.

  Willow Shields

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  I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.

  David Foster Wallace

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  I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

  Jorge Luis Borges

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• 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 Snicket

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• A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  Samuel Johnson

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• If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

  Frank Zappa

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• If the only way a library can offer an Internet exhibit about the New Deal is to hire a lawyer to clear the rights to every image and sound, then the copyright system is burdening creativity in a way that has never been seen before because there are no formalities.

  Lawrence Lessig

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• And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.

  Cornelia Funke

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• My parents, and librarians along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship could be found. In a library, you could find miracles and truth and you might find something that would make you laugh so hard that you get shushed, in the friendliest way.

  Anne Lamott

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• 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

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

  Lynda Barry

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