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Without the library, you have no civilization.

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I’m completely library educated. I’ve never been to college. I went down to the library when I was in grade school in Waukegan, and in high school in ...more

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I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old bo...more

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You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

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I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should educate themselves -- you c...more

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It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt...

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I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it...more

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Libraries raised me.

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I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put ...more

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(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?)Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer in your hand like you ca...more

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I was not predicting the future, I was trying to prevent it.

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Who wants to see the Future, who ever does? A man can face the Past, but to think - the pillars crumbled, you say? And the sea empty, and the canals d...more

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There must be something in books, things we can't imagine.

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Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There's nothing magical in them at all. Magic i...more

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It was pretty silly quoting poetry around free and easy like that. It was the act of a silly damn snob. Give man a few lines of verse and he thinks he...more