825 Quotes About Library
- Author Haruki Murakami
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I mean, public libraries like this one were always short of money, so building even the tiniest of labyrinths had to be beyond their means.
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- Author Nell Zink
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The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.
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- Author Minae Mizumura
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Something critical happens when the cadre of bilinguals learns to read imported scrolls: they gain entry into a library. I use the word "library" to refer not to a physical building but, more broadly, to the collectivity of accumulated writings. . . . humans possess an ever-increasing store of writings, the totality of which I call the library. The transformation of an oral culture into a written one means, first and foremost, the potential entry of bilinguals into a library.
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- Author Marge Piercy
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They found the library sadly lacking in texts they could use.
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- Author Adele Rose
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The library could be summed up in three words – enormous, ancient and dusty – extremely dusty. It was exactly like those magnificent libraries you more or less see in every gothic movie. What’s more, I was thankful that I was not an asthmatic, for this was most definitely their form of hell.
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- Author Genevieve Cogman
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The atmosphere of the place soothed her automatically; the rich lantern lights, the sheer scent of paper and leather, and the fact that everywhere she looked, there were books, books, beautiful books.
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- Author Tony DiTerlizzi
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Your answers lie here," Rovender said, gesturing around the library.
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- Author Jorge Luis Borges
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I cannot combine some charactersdhcmrlchtdjwhich the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning. No one can articulate a syllable which is not filled with tenderness and fear, which is not, in one of these languages, the powerful name of a god. To speak is to fall into tautology.
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- Author Mary Kubica
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I love the quietness of the library, the gateway to knowledge, to the French language and medieval history and hydraulic engineering and fairy tales, learning in a very primitive form: books, something that's quickly giving way to modern technology.
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