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First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library. — Charles Bukowski
On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged… — Craig Thompson
...Mr. Wodehouse is a prose stylist of such startling talent that Frankie nearly skipped around with glee when she first read some of his phrases.… — E. Lockhart
Public libraries have been a mainstay of my life. They represent an individual's right to acquire knowledge; they are the sinews that bind civilized societies… — James A. Michener
Here is the treasure chest of the world - the public library, or a bookstore. — Benjamin Carson
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure. — Virginia Woolf
Boys like him didn't die; they got bronzed and installed outside public libraries. — Maggie Stiefvater
I am a public library — Tony Benn
If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for… — John F. Kennedy
You wasted $150,000 on an education you could have got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library. — Ben Affleck
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an… — Bruce Feiler
You used to have to own a radio tower or television tower or printing press. Now all you have to have is access to an… — Clay Shirky
Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development. — Alan Bennett
The public library system of the United States is worth preserving. — Henry Rollins
A family living at the poverty level is unlikely to be able to afford a computer at home. Even with a computer, access to the… — Margaret Geller
From fifth grade on, I worked at our public library. The pay, a pittance, was almost superfluous. All through high school, I looked forward to… — Julia Glass
One of the reasons that I take such joy in being a trustee of the New York Public Library is the love of reading that… — Jessye Norman
I was the kind of reader in smudged pink harlequin glasses sitting on the cool, dusty floor of the Arrandale public library, standing at the… — Amy Bloom
In my opinion, right up there with free public schools, our free public library system is what makes citizenship possible, even what makes America great. — Karen DeCrow
For some 25 years, I worked as a librarian, first at the New York Public Library, then at Trenton State College in New Jersey. My… — Avi
I was so inspired by Dr. King that in 1956, with some of my brothers and sisters and first cousins - I was only 16… — John Lewis
The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents… — Lesley Conger
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the wall crowded on… — Samuel Johnson

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