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“Yes, I speak Dewey Decimal.”

— Sandra Beasley

“In my card catalogue, the Dewey Decimal System had placed him firmly under Ancient History.”

— S.E. Harmon

“Ah, the Dewey decimal system…humankind’s single greatest achievement.” From Candace Fleming’s The Fabled Fourth Graders of Aesop Elementary School”

— Candace Fleming

“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way you'd be able to find whatever you were looking for, like…

— Brian Selznick

“I walked around the library and the library smelled like every library I had ever been in and Dewey decimals were on all the…

— Catherine Lacey

“The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly,…

— Jeanette Winterson

“For years, I thought I had done that for Dewey. I thought that was my story to tell. And I had done that. When…

— Vicki Myron

“My worth depended on where exactly the decimal was placed among the zeroes.”

— Augusten Burroughs

“Q and Beanpole and I giggled at the way our math teacher, Mr. Sung-Li, wore four pencils in his shirt pocket in case he…

— Alan Lawrence Sitomer

“-You've got a . . . Lot of books, he said at last. -it's a sickness. -Are you . . . Seeing anyone for…

— Amor Towles

“Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or…

— Yoko Ogawa

“Slim and neatly groomed, he looked like a really sexy mathematician unaware that he was a prime number. I wanted to unbutton his shirt,…

— Marta Acosta