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It's one thing, holding open the door for someone at a grocery store, or the library, or just about anyplace else. But the doughnut shop is a different thing altogether. This is a get-in-and-out-as-fast-as-you-can operation. There's no room for courtesy or chivalry here.

Linwood Barclay
librarydifferentdoors
Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten... by Lionel Johnson

Yeats, you need ten years in the library, but I have need of ten years in the wilderness.

Lionel Johnson
libraryyearsneeds

I spent a lot of time at the New York Public Library, the main branch. I was one of those people. If you ever spend a good amount of time there, you realize there are people who spend the entire day there. They're bookish homeless people.

Lisa Yuskavage
librarynew-yorkpeople

So I would not be surprised if the globbing libraries, for example, will do NFD-mangling in order to glob "correctly", so even programs ported from real Unix might end up getting pathnames subtly changed into NFD as part of some hot library-on-library action with UTF hackery inside.

Linus Torvalds
libraryrealorder
There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its... by Lois McMaster Bujold

There is a sad disconnectedness that overcomes a library when its owner is gone.

Lois McMaster Bujold
libraryovercominggone

I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby?" "No." "Not anything?" "Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now.

Lisa Kleypas
libraryhurtneeds

It is like having a book out from the library. It is like constantly having a book out from the library.

Lorrie Moore
librarybook

I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library.

Lord Byron
librarylampslong

I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.

Lisa Kleypas
libraryrememberbook

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

Louis L'Amour
libraryfaultspeople
Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the... by Louis Nizer

Oh, I get lucky a lot. I get lucky at four in the morning in the law library.

Louis Nizer
librarylawmorning
Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries by Louis Pasteur

Live in the serene peace of laboratories and libraries

Louis Pasteur
serenelibraryscience
I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks. by Luanne Rice

I was born in a library, in the fiction stacks.

Luanne Rice
librarybornfiction
The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only l... by Luis Valdez

The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.

Luis Valdez
migrantslibrarycommunity

...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.

Louisa May Alcott
wildernesslibrarybook

I steal things from people, characteristics, and I just stock them in my head like a library to use for characters in the future.

Luke Mably
librarycharacterpeople
Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library. by Luther Standing Bear

Knowledge was inherent in all things. The world was a library.

Luther Standing Bear
libraryworldknowledge

I wanted to tell the story of these women and the war in the Congo and I couldn't find anything about them in the newspapers or in the library, so I felt I had to get on a plane and go to Africa and find the story myself. I felt there was a complete absence in the media of their narrative. It's very different now, but when I went in 2004 that was definitely the case.

Lynn Nottage
librarymediawar
Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the fa... by Madeleine Albright

Libraries are fun, educational, and the biggest bargain on the face of the earth.

Madeleine Albright
libraryeducationalfun

Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if there are no books on biology in your library, and the library is never open, your drive is meaningless.

Malcolm Gladwell
librarymaybook
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