Nobody recognizes that a bookstore or library can also be a drowning polar bear. And in this country [US], magazines, newspapers, and bookstores are drowning polar bears. And if people can't see that or don't want to talk about it, I don't understand them at all.
I went to my library, right? And I started to research the Bill of Rights and I did not technically find anything that said all Americans shall eat shrimp with whoever they like, but I found some things that are close enough to infer that I am within my legal rights to enjoy seafood with whomever I choose.
The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.
Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combination of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every way conceivable.
The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library in Adams, Mass. , where nothing seemed to change.
All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.
What are the libraries of science but files of newspapers?
She thougt of sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
When I was twelve, I decided to become a chef. I stole a book from the library about the greatest restaurants in France. I'd flip the pages and dream. I should return that book to the library some day.
That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
The public library is the great equaliser.
Part of my job is to help other kids find books, because not everyone has a keenly organized mind. Some kids could wander the library for hours and still have no idea how to find anything. For them, the Dewey Decimal System might as well be advanced calculus.
Come, and take choice of all my library, And so beguile thy sorrow.
Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends
The librarians know the secrets, not the historians
I was always the only black in the movie theater, the only black in class, the only black in the library, the only black in the discotheque. I always felt observed and judged.
Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books.
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 myself until my tummy ached.
