I always imagined that Paradise would be a kind of library. – Jorge Luis Borges, translated from Spanish
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A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. – Mark Twain, 1894
My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to want the second, when that is out. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Poet at the Breakfast Table
The great British Library — one of these sequestered pools of obsolete literature to which modern authors repair, and draw buckets full of classic lore, or pure English, undefiled wherewith to swell their own scanty rills of thought. – Washington Irving
Such is the miraculous nature of the future of exiles: what is first uttered in the impotence of an overheated apartment becomes the fate of nations. – Salman Rushdie
Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. – Mark Haddon
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
