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  1. Karen Cushman _ The Ballad of Lucy Whipple

    Non che non creda in Dio. Ci credo. Solo non sono sicura di credere nel Paradiso, almeno non quanto credo nella biblioteca pubblica.
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  2. Piers Anthony _ Golem in the Gears

    When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.
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  3. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    It seems so easy now to destroy libraries--mainly by taking away all the books--and to say that books and libraries are not relevant to people's lives. There's a lot of talk about social breakdown and alienation, but how can it be otherwise when our ideas of progress remove the centres that did so much to keep people together? In the North people met in the church, in the pub, in the marketplace, and in those philanthropic buildings where they could continue their education and their interests. Now, maybe, the pub is left--but mainly nothing is left. The library was my door to elsewhere.
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  4. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    The library was quiet. It was busy but it was quiet and I thought it must be like this in a monastery where you had company and sympathy but your thoughts were your own.
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  5. Jeanette Winterson _ Why Be Happy When You Could Be

    The librarian was explaining the benefits of the Dewey decimal system to her junior--benefits that extended to every area of life. It was orderly, like the universe. It had logic. It was dependable. Using it allowed a kind of moral uplift, as one's own chaos was also brought under control.'Whenever I am troubled,' said the librarian, 'I think about the Dewey decimal system.''Then what happens?' asked the junior, rather overawed.'Then I understand that trouble is just something that has been filed in the wrong place. That is what Jung was explaining of course--as the chaos of our unconscious contents strive to find their rightful place in the index of consciousness.
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  6. Virginia Woolf _ Jacob's Room

    anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.
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  7. Richard Matheson _ I Am Legend

    Miró hacia la biblioteca. Aquella sabiduría no calmaría nunca su fuego; siglos y siglos de palabras no podían satisfacer aquel deseo imperativo e irracional.
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  8. Terry Pratchett _ Reaper Man

    He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.
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  9. Terry Pratchett _ Guards! Guards!

    There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there are few worse sights than a hole where a book ought to be.
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  10. Roger Zelazny _ Nine Princes in Amber

    I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise, all around me. I always feel better when I can see that there is something to hold back the shadows."
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  11. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Wave in the Mind: Talks

    Knowledge sets us free, art sets us free. A great library is freedom...and that freedom must not be compromised. It must be available to all who need it, when they need it, and that's always.
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  12. Eric Klinenberg (author) _ Palaces for the Peoplemr Exp

    There's a term you don't hear these days, one you used to hear all the time when the Carnegie branches opened: Palaces for the People. The library really is a palace. It bestows nobility on people who otherwise couldn't afford a shred of it. People need to have nobility and dignity in their lives. And you know, they need other people to recognize it in them too."
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