It's like a sealed, forgotten chamber in me; I shan't feel complete until I've discovered its entrance.' 'Sounds like a tomb. Aren't you afraid of what you'll find in there?' 'It's a library; only the stupid and the evil are afraid of those.

Iain Banks
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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 Iain Banks
  1. Everything about us, everything around us, everything we know and can know of is composed ultimately of patterns of nothing; that’s the bottom line, the final truth. So where we find we have any control over those patterns, why not make the most elegant ones,...

  2. Don't you have a religion?" Dorolow asked Horza."Yes, " he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. "My survival."" So... your religion dies with you. How sad, " Dorolow said, looking back...

  3. As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.

  4. One of your American professors said that to study religion was merely to know the mind of man, but if one truly wanted to know the mind of God, you must study physics.

  5. Anyway, you can't leave her like that. You can't do that to the woman. She doesn't deserve it; nobody does. You don't belong to her and she doesn't belong to you, but you're both part of each other; if she got up and left now...

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