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Tag Name "Library" (1030)

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Being a writer in a library is rather like being a eunuch in a harem.
John Braine
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If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!
S. R. Ranganathan
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...we are all a volume on the shelf of the... library, a story unto ourselves, never possibly described with one word or even very accurately with thousands.
Deb Caletti
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First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.
Charles Bukowski
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You can't have a great university without a great library.
Joe Paterno
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You want weapons? We're in a library! Books! The best weapons in the world!
Steven Moffat
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Because that's what Hermione does,' said Ron, shrugging. 'When in doubt, go to the library.
J. K. Rowling
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I've never liked the idea of just having an office in a college somewhere and teaching classes and going to the library and doing research all day. I've never wanted that. The glamorous life is the life that appeals to me.
Ben Stein
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A library is a palace of dreams.
M.C. Beaton
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In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still and absorbed.
Germaine Greer
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People may go to the library looking mainly for information, but they find each other there.
Robert D. Putnam
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That Moorish architecture is all over the place, of course. It affects me everywhere I see it, as it does so many people. But Brand Library was a special place to me, and I know I've paid homage to it many times in my drawings.
Jim Woodring
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I resolve to venture into the city on my own. I look at maps in the library—subway maps, bus maps, and regular maps—and try to memorize them. I’m afraid of getting lost no, I’m afraid of sinking into the city as in a quicksand, afraid of getting sucked into something I can never escape.
Deborah Feldman
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So it's discouraging and, yet, when you make a movie like Wonder Boys, in a sense it's its own reward, because it does move people, it gets great reviews, and it becomes part of that library of movies that exist out there. As time goes by, it will find its audience.
Curtis Hanson
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But what can a man see of a library being one day in it?
James Boswell
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles William Eliot
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Now I know I am an intellectual. I saw Malcolm Muggeridge on the television last night, and I understood nearly every word. It all adds up. A bad home, poor diet, not liking punk. I think I will join the library and see what happens.
Sue Townsend
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One of the nastier trends in library management in recent years is the notion that libraries should be 'responsive to their patrons'.
Connie Willis
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Wasn't there a spell for making yourself happy? Somebody must have invented one. How could he have missed it? Why didn't they teach it? Was it in the library, a flying book fluttering just out of reach, beating its wings against some high window?
Lev Grossman
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My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman.
Benjamin Franklin
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Our great function is to inform or to inspire, or to please to give to the public in the quickest and cheapest way information, inspiration, and recreation on the highest plane. If a better way than the books is found we should use it.
Melvil Dewey
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I was raised in rural south Jersey, and there was no culture there. There was a small library, and that was it. There was nothing else.
Patti Smith
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He [Andrew Carnegie] wanted people to be able to lift themselves, to educate themselves, to train themselves. And there was no better way to do that than with libraries.
David Nasaw
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I talk to a lot of librarians, and there's always a steady drumbeat of how libraries are places of community. But a lot of them have also recently - and just in the nick of time - refurbished, because during this economic downturn, people have a tendency to borrow instead of buy.
Paula Poundstone
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