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