The librarian must be the librarian militant before he can be the librarian triumphant.

quote by Melvil Dewey
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Open Book's Monologue Part 5: Welcome To The Library!

Welcome to the library! come one come all
Welcome to the library! come with your brethren on this wall
Welcome to the library! come all you books tattered or new
Welcome to the library! come tired and overdue

Yes welcome to the library the place where you're most mundane
Yes welcome to the library the place where you're to endure most pain
Yes welcome to the library where you'll sit unwanted
Yes welcome to the library where you'll sit haunted
Yes welcome to the library where everyone's just like you
Yes welcome to the library where we're all books too!
Yes welcome to the library where you can take comfort
Yes welcome to the library where In the fact you're no longer unique
Yes welcome to the library You're just pen marks ink

Departing the library? I think not, even if you get out we'll bring you back
Departing the library? Here you rot, but we'll dust you to ease your passing
Departing the library? Don't make me laugh, here you're black and white
Departing the library? Nobody argues on your behalf, look more amassing

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poem by David Knox
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I was a librarian.

quote by Beverly Cleary
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Librarians as a race tend to be tedious.

quote by Peter Shaffer
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I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets.

quote by Heraclitus
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Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.

classic quote by Ray Bradbury
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Google can bring you back 100,000 answers, a librarian can bring you back the right one.

quote by Neil Gaiman
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Memory is the library of the mind.

Francis Fauvel-Gouraud in Phreno-Mnemotechny or The Art of Memory (1845)
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Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.

quote by Jodi Rell
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I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books.

quote by Joseph Fiennes
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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.

quote by Ann Richards
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

quote by Warren Buffett
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If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

classic quote by Cicero
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My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian.

quote by Paulina Porizkova
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Sort library is to act as a silent mode of art criticism.

classic quote by Jorge Luis Borges
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I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

classic quote by Jorge Luis Borges (1960)
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Libraries are not made, they grow.

quote by Augustine Birrell
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Libraries are where it all begins.

quote by Rita Dove
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

quote by Umberto Eco
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Love In The Library

Love in the library
By: jimmy buffett, mac mcanally
1994
On the corner of government and bay avenue
The old doomsday fanatic wore a crown of kudzu
Sirens were wailing in the gulf coastal heat
And it seemed like the whole world was in forced retreat
Paid no attention, revolved through the door
Past the newspaper racks on the worn marble floor
Near civil war history my heart skipped a beat
She was standing in fiction stretched high on bare feet
Chorus:
Love in the library
Quiet and cool
Love in the library
There are no rules
Surrounded by stories
Surreal and sublime
I fell in love in the library
Once upon a time

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song performed by Jimmy Buffett
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