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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  1. That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. - Aphra Behn

  2. We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth. - John Lubbock

  3. When I was a child, it was a matter of pride that I could plow through a Nancy Drew story in one afternoon, and begin another in the evening.. .. I was probably trying to impress the librarians who kept me supplied with books. - Kathleen Norris

  4. I have loved this disaster of a library since I was old enough to read. - Eleanor Brown

  5. ...but there was never enough time to read. The great irony of working in a library. - Jan Louch

More Quotes By Charles Bukowski
  1. My dear, Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain you of your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you and let it devour your remains. For all things will...

  2. Find what you love and let it kill you.

  3. I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

  4. Love is a form of prejudice. You love what you need, you love what makes you feel good, you love what is convenient. How can you say you love one person when there are ten thousand people in the world that you would love more...

  5. Some moments are nice, some arenicer, some are even worthwritingabout.

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