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Library Quotes by Ray Bradbury

39 Library quotes by Ray Bradbury

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The library is likened to a cracker box that keeps you wanting more books. Bradbury shares that spending time among shelves can teach you more than school and can feel like a mirror reflecting yourself. He also notes that libraries protect knowledge even when fire or flood comes.

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A library is all the university you will ever need.

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I never went to college, so I went to the library.

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I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

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What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?

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I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money.

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... bums on the outside, libraries inside.

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No use going to class unless you go to the library.

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Without the library, you have no civilization.

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“Live in the library, for Christ’s sake! Don’t live on your goddamn computers and the internet and all that crap. Go to…

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college.

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I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books…

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Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

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“You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon…

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But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at…

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You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in…

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The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

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I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from…

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should…

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When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With…

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You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff…

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Libraries are absolutely at the center of my life. Since I couldn't afford to go to college, I attended the library three…

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Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back…

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“So you go in a library, and you pull a book off the shelf, and you open it, and what are you…

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Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit…

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Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind…

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I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in…

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“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more…

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“Up steps, three, six, nine, twelve! Slap! Their palms hit the library door. * * * They opened the door and stepped…

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“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in…

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“I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in…

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It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement.

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I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

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There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

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You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films.

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When I graduated from high school I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library 3 days a week for 10 years.

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Libraries are the center of our lives. There's no use going to a university if you don't live at the library.

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You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have…

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[His] library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to…

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You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to love everything about literature.…

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The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.

I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves…

If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority