The Bibliotheque du Roi then gives you the closest thing that currently exists to God's understanding of the world."" And yet with a bigger library we could come ever so much closer.

Neal Stephenson
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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 Neal Stephenson
  1. Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was...

  2. Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs, " I said. "We have a protractor.

  3. A few dud universes can really clutter up your basement.

  4. If you can't test it, it's not theorics -- it's metatheorics. A branch of philosophy. So, if you want to think of it this way, our test equipment is what defines the boundary separating theorics from philosophy.

  5. Supposing that originally there was nothing but one creator, how could ordinary binary sexual relations come into being?

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