A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.
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Lemony Snicket
When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.
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Rita Mae Brown
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
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Virginia Woolf
I read, ' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on...
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David Foster Wallace
There's this magical place, ' he says with mock solemnity, 'called a library-- I don't know if you've heard of it, but they have books, and also newspaper, and back issues of newspapers...
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Anonymous
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