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Queens Library is an independent, not-for-profit corporation and is not affiliated with any other library. With 62 locations, Queens Library serves a population of 2.3 million in one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the U.S. and has among the highest circulations of any public library system in the world. For more information about programs, services, locations, events and news, visit the Queens Library website at www.queenslibrary.org or phone 718-990-0700. Queens Library. Enrich Your Life.®
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“Age appears to be best in four things—old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.”
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1936 Olympic Diving Trials and now (2013)
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We are big fans of today’s Google Doodle. Let the wild rumpus START!
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Catch up with the leading lady behind these wise words.
What doors has reading opened for you? Thank you, Mary McLeod Bethune, founder of Bethune-Cookman University and the National Council of Negro Women and the first African-America woman appointed to a federal administrative position, for your inspiring words.
Summer afternoon—summer afternoon…the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Henry James
What I am trying to achieve is a voice sitting by a fireplace telling you a story on a winter’s evening.
Truman Capote
I ransack public libraries, and find them full of sunk treasure.
Virginia Woolf
Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something, learned something, become a better person.
Nora Ephron, who passed away last night, wrote in her book “I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman”
Libraries raised me. … I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money.
Ray Bradbury in a 2009 New York Times article
