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Librarian Inspirational Quotes (4644)

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A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
Immanuel Kant
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The Law is supposed to keep us safe and strong and able to birth healthy children, yet the Law wants us to tear each other apart to find a leader. The Law's a bunch of hypocrisy.
Annette Curtis Klause
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I want to lay my kill at your feet.
Annette Curtis Klause
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I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, one as hated as the other.
Annette Curtis Klause
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Three cheers for Sheriff Wilson. - Bucky Dideron
Annette Curtis Klause
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I'd like to give you my heart, but since that might be inconvenient, I've brought you someone else's.
Annette Curtis Klause
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark.
Anne Tyler
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Reading any piece of writing aloud is an acid test, particularly when it comes to dialogue. There were writers I'd always admired who suddenly rang false when I spoke their words in our living room.
Anne Tyler
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The first-person viewpoint is more enjoyable to write, because it lets me meander more freely, and it can reveal more of the character's self-delusions. Really all the advantages are with first-person, so I'm sorry I don't get to pick and choose.
Anne Tyler
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I suspect that marriage is like parenthood: every last one of us is an amateur at it.
Anne Tyler
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Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.
Anne Tyler
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I love to think about chance - about how one little overheard word, one pebble in a shoe, can change the universe.
Anne Tyler
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I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.
Anne Tyler
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The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
Anne Tyler
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When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.
Anne Tyler
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I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely.
Anne Tyler
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Women were the ones that held the reins, it emerged.
Anne Tyler
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Sooner or later, even the sharpest pain became flattened.
Anne Tyler
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Try Jesus, you won't regret it, a billboard read.
Anne Tyler
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Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.
Anne Tyler
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Odd how clear it suddenly became, once a person had died, that the body was the very least of him.
Anne Tyler
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...if you catalogue grudges, anything looks bad.
Anne Tyler
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I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.
Anne Tyler
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