"One of the nastier trends in library management……" — Connie Willis

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• Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — 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… — 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
• Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future. — Ray Bradbury
• Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books… — Anthony Burgess
• Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once… — Laura Bush
• I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it… — George Carlin

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