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Libraries Quotes by Paula Poundstone
- The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community.
- It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth is libraries are…
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- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — Henry Ward Beecher
- Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? — Henry Ward Beecher
- That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library. — Aphra Behn
- People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned. — Saul Bellow
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
- Libraries are not made, they grow. — Augustine Birrell
- I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. — Jorge Luis Borges