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  1. Terry Pratchett _ Interesting Times

    He wanted to say: how could you be so nice and yet so dumb? The best thing you could do with the peasents was to leave them alone. Let them get on with it. When people who can read and write start fighting for those who can't, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere and leave the door open.
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  2. Terry Pratchett _ Going Postal

    Words have power, you understand? It is in the nature of our universe. Our library itself distorts time and space on quite a grand scale. Well, when the Post Office started accumulating letters, it was storing words. In fact, what was being created was what we call a 'gevaisa', a tomb of living words.
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  3. Terry Pratchett _ Guards! Guards!

    Several times he had to flatten himself against the shelves as a thesaurus thundered by. He waited patiently as a herd of Critters crawled past, grazing on the contents of the choicer books and leaving behind them piles of small slim volumes of literary criticism.
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  4. Terry Pratchett _ The Last Continent

    Now ," snapped the Dean, "we've searched for a decent library on this island. There simply isn't one! It's ridiculous. How is anyone supposed to get anything done?
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  5. Ursula K. Le Guin _ Changing Planes

    ...I, like Borges, think of heaven as something very like a library
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  6. Chuck Palahniuk _ Choke

    they should let some people into the library by prescription only
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  7. Kim Stanley Robinson _ Pacific Edge

    I grew up in a utopia, I did. California when I was a child was a child's paradise, I was healthy, well fed, well clothed, well housed. I went to school and there were libraries with all the world in them and after school I played in orange groves and in Little League and in the band and down at the beach and every day was an adventure. . . . I grew up in utopia.
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  8. Neal Stephenson _ The Confusion

    every human being who is born into this universe is like a child who has been given a key to an infinite Library, written in cyphers that are more or less obscure, arranged by a scheme-of which we can at first know nothing, other than that there does appear to be some scheme.
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  9. Jean-Paul Sartre _ The Words

    I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.
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  10. Jane Austen _ Pride and Prejudice

    I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
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  11. Billy Collins _ Sailing Alone Around the Room:

    I can hear the library humming in the night, a choir of authors murmuring inside their books along the unlit, alphabetical shelves, Giovanni Pontano next to Pope, Dumas next to his son, each one stitched into his own private coat, together forming a low, gigantic chord of language.
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  12. David Davis _ Librarian's Night Before

    Nick chided a censor, who wished some books gone, and suggested she scan Fahrenheit 451. For the book-budget cutters, Old Claus had no plan, cause if they could read, they just read Ayn Rand.
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