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I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

Just as the largest library, badly arranged, is not so useful as a very moderate one that is well arranged, so the greatest amount of knowledge, if not elaborated by our own thoughts, is worth much less than a far smaller volume that has been abundantly and repeatedly thought over.

Just as we outgrow a pair of trousers, we outgrow acquaintances, libraries, principles, etc., at times before they're worn out and times - and this is the worst of all - before we have new ones.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

Libraries are a hallmark of a civilized culture, and librarians represent that culture to all facets of society.

Larger school library collections and longer hours increase circulation.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Libraries are the torch of the world, illuminating the path when it feels too dark to see. We mustn't allow that torch to be extinguished.

Libraries are the wardrobes of literature.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Libraries collect the works of genius of every language and every age.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

Libraries are a consistent and major source of books for free reading.

Libraries are my passion in life. Before I became mayor (of Los Angeles), I used to sneak out here during lunchtime...and I'd go to a corner and take a book-any book almost-and read it for a while, and then feel rejuvenated.

Libraries aren't in the real world, after all. They're places apart, sanctuaries of pure thought. In this way I can go on living on the moon for the rest of my life.

Libraries can be of indispensable service in lifting the dead weight of poverty and ignorance.

Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

library is a beautiful old thing

Like most of my friends in school, I was a member of multiple circulating libraries; and all of us, to begin with, borrowed and read the same things.

Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy.

Let me tell you this, if I had wanted to have a library of audio and videotapes of Bill Clinton, I could have had that. And after I was accused of being a liar, I wished that I had of.

Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Libraries...house our dreams.

Libraries made me - as a reader, as a writer, and as a human being.

Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.

Libraries are magical places. There's nothing quite like strolling the hushed aisles, letting your eye rove along dimly lit shelves. Each spine, each title, seems to beckon with a promise of incredible wonders, surprises, and adventures.

Libraries are our friends.

Libraries are the future of reading.

Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

Libraries are where most of us really fall in love with books, where we can browse and choose on our own. Its really one of the first autonomous things we do, picking the books we want to read.

Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.

Library-denigrators, pay heed:suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.

Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

Loaded with note cards for research papers that I was hopelessly behind on, I'd enter the Public Library only to end up wandering around lost, wasting the day.

London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.

Magic is used in espionage, all the time, for clandestine things. I've got a whole library from a gentleman who was hired by the CIA to create magic technology for the use of anti-terrorism.

Love made you admire funny things about a person, like how good she was at remembering to return her library books and at slicing cucumbers very thin. She was a veritable wonder at pulling a splinter out of her foot.

Lully's machine, Mill's fear and Lasswitz's chaotic library can be the subject of jokes, but they exaggerate a propensity which is common: making metaphysics and the arts into a kind of play with combinations.

Madam, a circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge; it blossoms through the year. And depend on it that they who are so fond of handling the leaves, will long for the fruit at last.

Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens.

Making love to Aurelia was like rummaging through a card catalog in a deserted library, searching for one very obscure, little-read entry on Hungarian poetry.