238 Quotes About Librarians
- Author Dorothea Benton Frank
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I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all know that a great story can lift spirits, take you anywhere in the world you want to go and in any time period to boot, and the lessons you learn from a good book can buoy your own convictions and even change your life.
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- Author Flannery O'Connor
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Librarians are the last people you can trust about the inside of books.
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- Author Terry Pratchett
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The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books must be returned no later than the last date shown; and 3) Do not interfere with the nature of causality.
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- Author David Foster Wallace
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Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.
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- Author Jodi Picoult
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Librarians, to Melanie, were somewhat in a par with god -- who else could be bothered with, and better yet, know the answers to so many diffrent types of questions? Knowledge was power, but a good librarian did not hoard the gift. She taught others how to fknd, where to look, how to see
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- Author Josh Hanagarne
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As a breed, [librarians are] the ultimate generalists. I'll never know everything about anything, but I'll know something about almost everything and that's how I like to live.
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- Author Georgette Heyer
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He would not object, he said, to accepting a post as a librarian. But as Cecilia was unable to imagine that her father or her brother would feel any marked degree of satisfaction in giving her in marriage to a librarian, this very handsome concession on Mr Fawnhope's part merely added to her despondency.
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- Author Mary Virginia Provines
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There is a somewhat time-worn joke about people taking up library work because they like to read : the joke consisting of the fact that librarians have so little time to read. But, I tell you, those who do not, and there are some, are in the wrong profession.
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- Author Cory Doctorow
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YA doesn't get librarians fired!
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