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“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbors,...”
– Voltaire (via viscountjan)
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“The only condition a library asks its users to honor is to do justice to their...”
– “Libraries are Stations of Hope” by Vartan Gregorian
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“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely...”
– A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think...”
– Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami
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“For me, there’s a critical symbolic value to libraries as well. Their very...”
– Steve Lopez, LA Times (via realisticaly)
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“What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper...”
– Anne Lamott
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“And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow,
stood puzzling and...”
– Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (via bookoasis)
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“You should never read just for ‘enjoyment.’ Read to make yourself...”
– John Waters
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“Books can be possessive, can’t they? You’re walking around in a bookstore and a...”
– Sarah Addison Allen (via slekes)
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“Too many people try to assuage pain that can never be eradicated. All you can do...”
– The Hypnotist by M.J. Rose 