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In Praise of Libraries

Without writers, there would be no libraries. On the other hand, without libraries to shape and shelter them, there would certainly be fewer writers. As the following quotations by well-known wordsmiths suggest, sometimes a little co-dependence can be a beautiful thing.

 

“When I got my library card, that’s when my life began.” —Rita Mae Brown

“The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.” —Rita Dove

“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.” —Ray Bradbury

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” —Jorge Luis Borges

“The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.” —T.S. Eliot

“Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.” —Neil Gaiman

“A library is infinity under a roof.” —Gail Carson Levine

“A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.” —Henry Ward Beecher

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” —Marcus Tullius Cicero

“When in doubt go to the library.” —J.K. Rowling

 

 

Posted on Apr. 17, 2020 by Autumn Stephens