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Library Quotes by John Kennedy Toole
- ...I doubt very seriously whether anyone will hire me.' What do you mean, babe? You a fine boy with a good education.' Employers sense in…
- Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book…
- I was getting tired about what the preacher called Christian. Anything he did was Christian, and the people in his church believed it, too. If…
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- When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society… — Isaac Asimov
- London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want,… — David Attenborough
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood
- It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all… — James A. Baldwin
- The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry
- A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life. — 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
- If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library. — Tony Benn
- Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. — Josh Billings
- Libraries are not made, they grow. — Augustine Birrell
- Like all those possessing a library, Aurelian was aware that he was guilty of not knowing his in its entirety. — Jorge Luis Borges