Quotes and Sayings About Library
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Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.
-- Alan Bennett -
It was the kind of library he had only read about in books.
-- Alan Bennett -
A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
-- Alberto Manguel -
In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long.
-- Alberto Manguel -
If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.
-- Alberto Manguel -
We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.
-- Alberto Manguel -
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.
-- Alberto Manguel -
I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.
-- Alberto Manguel -
The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.
-- Alberto Manguel -
A library is an ever-growing entity; it multiples seemingly unaided, it reproduces itself by purchase, theft, borrowings, gifts, by suggesting gaps through association, by demanding completion of sorts.
-- Alberto Manguel -
It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.
-- Alberto Manguel -
Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.
-- Alberto Manguel -
I acknowledge immense debt to the griots [tribal poets] of Africa - where today it is rightly said that when a griot dies, it is as if a library has burned to the ground.
-- Alex Haley -
Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.
-- Alex Haley -
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.
-- Alexander Smith -
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange sense of the supernatural.
-- Alexander Smith -
There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.
-- Alexandra Adornetto -
America, why are your libraries full of tears?
-- Allen Ginsberg -
A library is a hospital for the mind.†- Anonymous
-- Alvin Toffler -
In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.
-- Amadou Hampate Ba -
Every old man that dies is a library that burns.
-- Amadou Hampate Ba -
The richest minds need not large libraries.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott -
The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.
-- Amy Bloom -
A library is the only single place you can go to learn something new, be comforted, terrified, thrilled, saddened, overjoyed, or excited all in one day. And for free.
-- Amy Neftzger
