T Quotes
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“The libido accepts all currencies, and vicarious pleasures have an over-the-counter exchange rate that is considered reliable enough to pass for real. No one ever went bankrupt borrowing someone else's pleasures. We go bankrupt when we want no one.”
Source: Find Me
“The librarian chuckled. “I suppose there are rather a lot of orphan stories out there.” “Why do grown-ups write so many of them?” William asked. “I hadn’t really thought about it,” Mrs. Müller confessed. “Perhaps they think children fancy the notion of living on their own, without adults to tell them what to do. It’s quite daft, if you think about it, isn’t it?”
Source: A Place to Hang the Moon
“The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither of them were great readers. The Librarian was, of course, very much in favor of reading in general, but readers in particular got on his nerves. There was something, well, sacrilegious about the way they kept taking books off the shelves and wearing out the words by reading them. He liked people who loved and respected books, and the best way to do that, in the Librarian’s opinion, was to leave them on the shelves where Nature intended them to be.”
“The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.”
“The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.”
“The librarian of today, and it will be true still more of the librarians of tomorrow, are not fiery dragons interposed between the people and the books. They are useful public servants, who manage libraries in the interest of the public . . . Many still think that a great reader, or a writer of books, will make an excellent librarian. This is pure fallacy.”
“The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.”
Source: Ten Little Indians
“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.”
Source: Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?
“The Librarian was not familiar with love, which had always struck him as a bit ethereal and soppy, but kindness, on the other hand, was practical. You knew where you were with kindness, especially if you were holding a pie it had just given you.”
Source: Unseen Academicals: (Discworld Novel 37)
“The librarian's mission should be, not like up to now, a mere handling of the book as an object, but rather a know how (mise au point) of the book as a vital function.”
“The librarian, the warrior, the free spirit... archetypes are a great jumping off point to help clarify where we want to go with a character.”
“The librarians know the secrets, not the historians”
“The librarians that I've spoken to, the teachers and the librarians who really care and do advise parents and children of what's good and what's out there, they are very special. They have a kind of wisdom that a lot of people don't have.”
“The librarians were mysterious. It was said they could tell what book you needed just by looking at you, and they could take your voice away with a word.”
“The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of free and inquiring minds. To them, our citizens-of all ages and races, of all creeds and persuasions-must be able to turn with clear confidence that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unvarnished by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.”
Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953
“The librarium — the sum total of what reading represents and does — is strong.
Read with any consistency and you will be succored, you will be reconstituted and, if you hang tough enough, you will eventually be transformed.
Without fucking fail.”
“The library (in the migrant community) I grew up in was my only link to the outside world.”
“The library at Madingley Grange was rarely used. The pristine books in their diamond-paned cases seemed never to have been sullied by anything so coarse as the perusal of the human eye.”
Source: Murder At Madingley Grange
“The Library Bar,” I read on the sign above the bar.”
Source: A Sinful Symphony: A Dark BDSM Romance
“The library card is a passport to wonders and miracles, glimpses into other lives, religions, experiences, the hopes and dreams and strivings of ALL human beings, and it is this passport that opens our eyes and hearts to the world beyond our front doors, that is one of our best hopes against tyranny, xenophobia, hopelessness, despair, anarchy, and ignorance.”
“The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species.”
Source: Cosmos
“The Library didn't only contain magical books, the ones which are chained to their shelves and are very dangerous. It also contained perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also dangerous, just because reading them didn't make fireworks go off in the sky. Reading them sometimes did the more dangeous trick of making fireworks go off in the privacy of the reader's brain.”
Source: Soul Music: (Discworld Novel 16)
“The library door was thick and none of the ordinary sounds that might have reminded them, might have held them back, could reach them. They were beyond the present, outside time, with no memories and no future,”
Source: Atonement
“The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs.”
“The library guards everything and nothing at all. Books do not find value when they are written. They find value when they are read. Every book here is both worthless and priceless at the same time. It depends on who you ask. As I have not yet had the pleasure of reading half of the library's collection, I can say that only the books that I have taken from the shelves and stored in my heart are truly precious.”
Source: Water Moon
“The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.”
Source: Truths and Roses
“The library had not been a career choice. After all, who would choose to be a librarian?”
Source: Shrines of Gaiety
“The library has always been an otherworldly and wondrous space. It is where I found a home and a future in words.”
“The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long as they hold your interest, abandoning any that don't, halfway or a quarter of the way through if you like, and store up all that knowledge in the happy corners of your mind for your own self and not to show off how much you know or spit it back at your teacher on a test paper.”
Source: My One Hundred Adventures
“The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?”
“The library is a place where most of the things I came to value as an adult had their beginnings.”
“The library is a symbol of freedom.”
“The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.”
“The Library is an open sanctuary. It is devoted to individual intellectual inquiry and contemplation. Its function is to provide free access to ideas and information. It is a haven of privacy, a source of both cultural and intellectual sustenance for the individual reader. Since it is thus committed to free and open inquiry on a personal basis, the Library must remain open, with access to it always guaranteed.”
“The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.”
“The library is dangerous—
Don’t go in. If you do
You know what will happen.
It’s like a pet store or a bakery—
Every single time you’ll come out of there
Holding something in your arms.
Those novels with their big eyes.
And those no-nonsense, all muscle
Greyhounds and Dobermans,
All non-fiction and business,
Cuddly when they’re young,
But then the first page is turned.
The doughnut scent of it all, knowledge,
The aroma of coffee being made
In all those books, something for everyone,
The deli offerings of civilization itself.
The library is the book of books,
Its concrete and wood and glass covers
Keeping within them the very big,
Very long story of everything.
The library is dangerous, full
Of answers. If you go inside,
You may not come out
The same person who went in.”
Source: Not Go Away Is My Name
“The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's
sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of
ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior.”
“The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm.”
Source: Hocus Pocus
“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
“The library is like a candy store where everything is free.”
Source: Songs of Willow Frost: A Novel
“The library is my cathedral.”
“The library is my safe harbor since I dare not go into the cafeteria alone, a whale surrounded by starving sharks.”
Source: Starfish
“The library is not a shrine for the worship of books. It is not a temple where literary incense must be burned or where one's one devotion to the bound book is expressed in ritual. A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”
Source: Present Tense; an American Editor's Odyssey
“The library is not just a place for books, but a bridge between the past and present, where every story has the potential to change lives forever.”
Source: Emery and the Library of Shadows
“The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.”
“The library is not, as some would have it, a place for the retiring of disposition or faint of heart. It is not an ivory tower or a quiet room in a sanitarium facing away from the afternoon sun. It is, rather, a command center, a power base. A board room, a war room. An Oval Office for all who preside over their own destinies. One does not retreat from the world here; one prepares to join it at an advantage.”
Source: The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader
“The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.”
“The library is really nice and really handsome. Its dark wooden bookshelves house rows upon rows of lovely-looking books. The books are not bound in protective plastic jackets like they are in your local library. Instead, they are bound in fabric. The mere sight of them makes you want to twirl around in a marveling manner, like people do in films.”
Source: Life Hacks for a Little Alien
“The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.”
“The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.”