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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.


Anatole France

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ANATOLE FRANCE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them. The only books I have in my library are those that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE The library—the place in my life that was full of books—beagan to teach me that books weren't ev...
SCOTT DOUGLAS I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know ...
ALBERTO MANGUEL Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is ak...
JOHN DINGELL I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my s...
BARRY MCGEE Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegat...
VIRGINIA WOOLF There were a lot of things I loved about working in a library, but mostly I miss the library patrons...
ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN I love to go the library to borrow books. But I also enjoyed buying books to create my sacred librar...
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I was teased if I brought my books home. I would take a paper bag to the library and put the books i...
WALTER DEAN MYERS I can lend you my money not my books.
AMIT KALANTRI Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,00...
ANTHONY BURGESS Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV,...
PATRICK CARMAN In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.
ANNA QUINDLEN I discovered Deborah Ellis's books in the school library after my head teacher encouraged me to ...
MALALA YOUSAFZAI Books in a large university library system: 2, 000,000. Books in an average large city library: 1 0,...
LOIS HOROWITZ Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me...
EVE BUNTING My bookshelves have no order. I prune them regularly and sell the books to Myopic Books, a Chicago b...
JESSE BALL There are good books which are only for adults.
There are no good books which are only for chil...
W.H. AUDEN Few pleasures, for the true reader, rival the pleasure of browsing unhurriedly among books: old book...
AIDAN CHAMBERS Removing books from the library is a no-no.
DIANE RAVITCH The year after I graduated college I had a job in a library. When people underlined passages in the ...
LEV GROSSMAN My heart is your church where I worship you, My mind is a library where only your books are availabl...
SADIA IMRAN SAIGAL A library doesn’t need windows, Andrew. We have books, which are windows into worlds we never even...
CHRIS GRABENSTEIN Do you lend books and DVDs to people? If so, don't you always regret it? All my life I have forc...
LYNNE TRUSS Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have visio...
JOE QUEENAN I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of an...
C.S. LEWIS There's now an avalanche of poker books coming out. We have a reputation for putting out the very be...
MASON MALMUTH Let them be gone now, them and all the others, those I have used and those I have not used, give me ...
SAMUEL BECKETT Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She gra...
WALTER DEAN MYERS It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if...
CAROLYN WELLS Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
MARK TWAIN I don't live in books, but, boy, have books amplified my life.
RON CARLSON We'll be able to have meeting spaces, a computer lab and a library for research. Right now I have ov...
REBECCA RIALL As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to t...
PIERS ANTHONY Every now and then, someone will tell me that one of my books has made them laugh out loud. I never ...
MARY ROACH The Big Book of Easy Suppers
CHRONICLE BOOKS Murder Alfresco: A Sunny McCoskey Napa Valley Mystery
CHRONICLE BOOKS Highballs High Heels: A Girl's Guide to the Art of Cocktails
CHRONICLE BOOKS The Beatles Anthology
CHRONICLE BOOKS Even thought you can't see it, my son, things are changing. Things ALWAYS change, given enough time ...
EXO BOOKS Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob
POCKET BOOKS The Journey is the Destination
CHRONICLE BOOKS It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not ev...
EXO BOOKS In this moment, everything is sacred.
ARIEL BOOKS Sadly, history shows us that people literally scrambled their children's brains with heavy exposure ...
EXO BOOKS The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an une...
MAIRA KALMAN I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.
MARK FOLEY She never told me anything, but she allowed me to read anything I wanted in the library, which held ...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT Books are enchanted. Books help me travel. Books help me breathe.
MARGARITA ENGLE Organizing the books was a fun afternoon. We decided to put the thick hardback books, mostly intro. ...
JOSHUA ISARD I really love being a weirdo who writes a lot of different things for a lot of different ages. I hav...
HOLLY BLACK Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO The Bible is worth all the other books which have ever been printed.
PATRICK HENRY Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer t...
GARY WOLF We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never...
MORDECAI RICHLER Once they're in the library, then we promote the books we have, the resources we have and the people...
JUDITH GREGG Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people ...
JOSH LIEB I have no personal agenda in whether or not a library keeps 'Whale Talk' or 'Athletic Sh...
CHRIS CRUTCHER Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love them...
ARNOLD LOBEL Books to the ceiling,
Books to the sky,
My pile of books is a mile high.
How I love t...
ARNOLD LOBEL Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me
From mine own library with volumes that
I prize ab...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.
JO WALTON That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth...
DAVE EGGERS The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
JACKIE COLLINS Like any other person who reads a ton of books, I hate many, many books. Oh, how I hate them. I have...
SARAH REES BRENNAN Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild bo...
VIRGINIA WOOLF Have you really read all those books in your room?”

Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’...
JOHN GREEN Books can not be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish me...
FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT Knowing I loved my books, he furnished me,From mine own library with volumes thatI prize above my du...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.
MARK TWAIN I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration ...
JOHN HOWE I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been co...
JOHN DAWKINS I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed -- and one of them hadn't even been...
JOHN DAWKINS I heard his library burned down and both books were destroyed - and one of them hadn't even been col...
ROBERTSON DAVIES Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things are explained to yo...
JULIAN BARNES I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, hi...
SALLY MANN The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.
SAMUEL BUTLER One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others...
MARY ROACH My wish is to create a huge library of books.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. TRAVERS My books are published by Hachette. My books have been blacklisted and blocked on Amazon on multiple...
CHARLES STROSS I can see he's not in your good books,' said the messenger.
'No, and if he were I would burn my...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The holy books of all religions are powerful books,not because they are religious books,but because ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
OSCAR WILDE When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, ...
JANE YOLEN I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth...
PATRICIA REILLY GIFF I usually read four or five books from my reading log but sometimes I read other books just for info...
MACKAY RASMUSSEN The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books...
BRIAN WHITE Proceeds go for books for the library, and also every student gets one book for their birthday.
BETH SCHWIER I love books. I've always been involved with books and I wanted to help the library in any way possi...
CAROLYN JONES I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
H. G. BISSINGER I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the lib...
CAMILLE PAGLIA Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another tw...
TONY REINKE Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own b...
ANN RULE Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my d...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all dep...
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BRIAN FRANCE They're going to have a sushi bar and make this place feel a little bit more like where it is: South...
BRIAN FRANCE I congratulate Chris Powell and LVMS for launching this improvement project. The new garage area wil...
BRIAN FRANCE We'd always like it to be closer, but it really is close enough for us. The perfect scenario would b...
BRIAN FRANCE We are not happy that he has had a progression of pushing the envelope. We expect everybody to be ag...
BRIAN FRANCE It has been a big distraction. We haven't announced the final penalty for Chad yet. We don't expect ...
BRIAN FRANCE This is the maximum amount of power we can currently test. We suspect the coil is even more powerful...
DANIELLE FRANCE I think there's a tremendous ripple effect. For a species like the grizzly, it's an indicator specie...
TOM FRANCE As far as Ronnie hurting himself, we are aware of how it could affect him. It has affected guys diff...
TODD FRANCE It's not a flag I look at (as) anything favorable.
BRIAN FRANCE We're getting down to the wire. Looks to be in the next four to six weeks or sooner there will be so...
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