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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
library gaps growing

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
library sake writing
Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down. by Alex Haley

Every time an old person dies, it's like a library burning down.

Alex Haley
burning-down library persons
Every death is like the burning of a library. by Alex Haley

Every death is like the burning of a library.

Alex Haley
library burning inspirational

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
library debt today
How index-learning turns no student pale, by Alexander Pope

How index-learning turns no student pale,

Alexander Pope
eels library science
I go into my library and all history unrolls before me. by Alexander Smith

I go into my library and all history unrolls before me.

Alexander Smith
libraries-and-librarians book-lover library

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
library night book

There was an extensive collection of cookbooks in the well-stocked library, and he took to pouring over these in the evenings.

Alexandra Adornetto
library pouring evening

Read properly, fewer books than a hundred would suffice for a liberal education. Read superficially, the British Museum Library might still leave the student a barbarian.

Alfred Richard Orage
library museums book

Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who’d lost their way, the ones who’d lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel.

Alice Hoffman
library book people

In one sphere above all others, Anne Boleyn still had the power to influence him, and that was in the case of church reform. Anne was a passionate and sincere evangelical, the owner of a library of controversial reformist literature, and she was sympathetic to radical and even Lutheran ideas.

Alison Weir
library church ideas
America, why are your libraries full of tears? by Allen Ginsberg

America, why are your libraries full of tears?

Allen Ginsberg
library tears america

What tends to happen is that people will go - they've got hot broth, you know, they've added some liquid to their drippings, they've brought that up to heat. And then they try to add in a big clump of just kind of a handful of flour, and of course, it turns into library paste.

Alton Brown
library trying people
A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous by Alvin Toffler

A library is a hospital for the mind.” - Anonymous

Alvin Toffler
libraries-books-and-reading library mind
Every old man that dies is a library that burns. by Amadou Hampate Ba

Every old man that dies is a library that burns.

Amadou Hampate Ba
library old-man men
In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning. by Amadou Hampate Ba

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Amadou Hampate Ba
library burning men
The richest minds need not large libraries. by Amos Bronson Alcott

The richest minds need not large libraries.

Amos Bronson Alcott
library mind needs
The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's  by Amy Bloom

The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's

Amy Bloom
library ignorance children

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
library excited one-day
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