When reading you have the opportunity to pause for thought & spark your imagination. It develops intellect. Nothing more threatening to a politician than a well read working class.

Alan Moore
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  1. 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. - Lemony Snicket

  2. When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began. - Rita Mae Brown

  3. I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure. - Virginia Woolf

  4. 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... - David Foster Wallace

  5. 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... - Anonymous

More Quotes By Alan Moore
  1. My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.

  2. Knowledge, like air, is vital to life. Like air, no one should be denied it.

  3. Thermodynamic miracles.. events with odds against so astronomical they're effectively impossible, like oxygen spontaneously becoming gold. I long to observe such a thing. And yet, in each human coupling, a thousand million sperm vie for a single egg. <span style="margin:15px; display:block"></span>Multiply those odds by countless...

  4. Real life is messy, inconsistent, and it's seldom when anything ever really gets resolved. It's taken me a long time to realize that.

  5. A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why should I be concerned?

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