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“I was not only invited to read: I was expected to read. Reading was my responsibility, in English and Spanish. Like many poor kids before me, I was given the best gift anyone could hope for--a library card. On Saturdays, my mother and I would take the #11 bus downtown. I'd haul my stack of the week's books inside and come back out with a new armload. I was a millionaire.”

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Book:Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction

Source: Six Kinds of Sky: A Collection of Short Fiction

“As a child, recognizing my difference from other kids, I went to the local public library to try to better understand my reality. Back then, many library card catalogues didn't even list 'homosexuality' as a topic.”

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Author:James McGreevey

“The library takes me away from my everyday life and allows me to see other places and learn to understand other people unlike myself.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment.”

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Author:Alisa Valdes

“And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.”

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Author:Sarah Jessica Parker

“To make sure that votes are never canceled out by illegal votes, we instituted a photo ID requirement. And don't you think it's fair to apply at least the same standard required to get a library card or to board an airpane?”

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Author:Rick Perry

“If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?”

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Author:Lily Tomlin

“When I got [my] library card, that was when my life began.”

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Author:Rita Mae Brown

“Let us toast to animal pleasures, to escapism, to rain on the roof and instant coffee, to unemployment insurance and library cards, to absinthe and good-hearted landlords, to music and warm bodies and contraceptives... and to the "good life", whatever it is and wherever it happens to be.”

Source: Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

“Both my mum and dad were great readers, and we would go every Saturday morning to the library, and my sister and I had a library card when we could pass off something as a signature, and all of us would come with an armful of books.”

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Author:Geraldine Brooks

“Between notes, he had contemplated means of destroying Myrna Minkoff but had reached no satisfactory conclusion. His most promising scheme had involved getting a book on munitions from the library, constructing a bomb, and mailing it in plain paper to Myrna. Then he remembered that his library card had been revoked.”

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Book:A Confederacy of Dunces

Source: A Confederacy of Dunces

“A library card is good to have, you can never have too much ID.”

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Book:Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

Source: Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales

“Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.”

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Author:Sidney Sheldon

“A library card is the start of a lifelong adventure.”

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Author:Lilian Jackson Braun

“sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had read the book, and track them down to talk about it”

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Book:Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

Source: Half Broke Horses: A True-Life Novel

“The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.”

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Author:Milton Berle

“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.”

“I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.”

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Author:Laura Bush

“When I was young, we couldn't afford much. But, my library card was my key to the world.”

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Author:John Goodman

“Libraries are community treasure chests, loaded with a wealth of information available to everyone equally, and the key to that treasure chest is the library card. I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.”

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Author:Laura Bush

“Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.”

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Book:Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice

Source: Oprah Winfrey speaks: insight from the world's most influential voice

“My alma mater was books, a good library.”

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Book:The Autobiography of Malcolm X

Source: The Autobiography of Malcolm X

“No man will ever put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.”

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Author:Joan Rivers

“I've got my library card and i'm checking you out!”

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Author:Joe Jonas

“Women should look good. Work on yourselves. Education? I spit on education. No man is ever going to put his hand up your dress looking for a library card.”

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Author:Joan Rivers

“My most prized possession was my library card from the Oakland Public Library.”

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Book:Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man

Source: Second wind: the memoirs of an opinionated man

“My library card. Every hurdle I've faced, I have researched my way over at a library. I'm grateful for that part of the American spirit that believes every citizen should have access to books.”

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Author:Sarah Bird

“Ever since we had arrived in the United States, my classmates kept asking me about magic carpets. - They don't exist-I always said. I was wrong. Magic carpets do exist. But they are called library cards.”

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Author:Firoozeh Dumas

“As a child, a library card takes you to exotic, faraway places. When you're grown up, a credit card does it.”

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Author:Sam Ewing

“Having fun isn't hard When you've got a library card.”

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Author:Marc Brown

“There is no problem a library card can't solve.”

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Author:Eleanor Brown

“With a public library card in your hand, you have access to the Internet and a world of opportunities.”

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Author:Bill Gates

“A picture's worth a thousand words? A library card's worth millions.”

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Author:Roy Blount, Jr.

“The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.”

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Author:E. L. Doctorow

“The first thing my family did when we moved was join the local church. The second was to go to the library and get library cards.”

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Author:John Grisham

“Everything you need for your better future and success has already been written.And guess What? It's all available.All you have to do is go to the library.But guess what?Only three percent of the people in America have a library card.Wow,they must be expensive!No, they're free.Probably in every neighborhood.Three percent!”

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Author:Jim Rohn

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