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Library Quotes by Kurt Vonnegut
- The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.
- So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives…
- While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly…
- ...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath…
- He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child…
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- 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
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- 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