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To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth.

~ Lionel Barrymore

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Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell

~ Oprah Winfrey

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Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

~ George Carlin

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His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.

~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers...

~ Anna Quindlen

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I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn’t known I wanted.

~ Mary Ann Shaffer

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The Bookshop has a thousand books,All colors, hues, and tinges,And every cover is a doorThat turns on magic hinges.

~ Nancy Byrd Turner

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For the last several days I've had the sudden and general urge to buy a new book. I've stopped off at a few bookstores around the city, and while I've looked at hundreds and hundreds of books in that time, I have not found the one book that will satisfy my urge. It's not as if I don't have anything to read; there's a tower of perfectly good unread books next to my bed, not to mention the shelves of books in the living room I've been meaning to reread. I find myself, maddeningly, hungry for the next one, as yet unknown. I no longer try to analyze this hunger; I capitulated long ago to the book lust that's afflicted me most of my life. I know enough about the course of the disease to know I'll discover something soon.

~ Lewis Buzbee

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Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping madly to find another world on the other side. A bell jingled overhead. The mild, spicy smell of old books hit him, and the smell was somehow like coming home.

~ Stephen King

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Shelving books incorrectly is as good as stealing them. It's almost worse.

~ Paul Acampora

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An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help, please visit our philosophy, literature, history and science sections, find yourself a good book, read it, and think about it.

~ Roger Ebert

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Reality doesn’t always give us the life that we desire, but we can always find what we desire between the pages of books.

~ Adelise M. Cullens

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Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.

~ Jen Campbell

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If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.

~ R. Albert Mohler Jr.

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I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.

~ Jerry Pinto

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Books are more precious than jewels. She truly believed this. What did a diamond bring you? A momentary flash of brilliance. A diamond scintillated for second a book could scintillate forever.

~ Veronica Henry

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The replacement of independent bookstores by firms such as Barnes & Noble, Waterstones or Borders superficially provided a wide range of reading, but their policies further limited choice.

~ Sara Ayad

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Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.

~ Louis L'amour

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Second hand books had so much life in them. They'd lived, sometimes in many homes, or maybe just one. They'd been on airplanes, traveled to sunny beaches, or crowded into a backpack and taken high up a mountain where the air thinned.Some had been held aloft tepid rose-scented baths, and thickened and warped with moisture. Others had child-like scrawls on the acknowledgement page, little fingers looking for a blank space to leave their mark. Then there were the pristine novels, ones that had been read carefully, bookmarks used, almost like their owner barely pried the pages open so loathe were they to damage their treasure.I loved them all.And I found it hard to part with them. Though years of book selling had steeled me. I had to let them go, and each time made a fervent wish they'd be read well, and often.Missy, my best friend, said I was completely cuckoo, and that I spent too much time alone in my shadowy shop, because I believed my books communicated with me. A soft sigh here, as they stretched their bindings when dawn broke, or a hum, as they anticipated a customer hovering close who might run a hand along their cover, tempting them to flutter their pages hello. Books were fussy when it came to their owners, and gave off a type of sound, an almost imperceptible whirr, when the right person was near. Most people weren't aware that books chose us, at the time when we needed them.

~ Rebecca Raisin

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I thought of the cool, fresh air of the city I'd always dreamed of living in. The art museums and trolleys and the mysterious fog that blanketed it. I could almost smell the cappuccinos I'd planned to drink in bohemian cafes or hear the indie music in the bookstores I would spend my free time in. I pictured the friends I'd make, my kindred art people, and the dorm room I was supposed to move into.

~ Heather Demetrios

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In those days, there was no money to buy books.

~ Ernest Hemingway

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Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end only in tow ways: having passed all the tests, the hero and the heroine married, or else they died. The ultimate meaning to which all stories refer has two faces: the continuity of life, the inevitability of death.

~ Italo Calvino

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The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop.

~ C.s. Lewis

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Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

~ Mark Helprin

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The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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I wish to continue reading.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Until a man begins to read, then He will discover himself.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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I am happy to have all the books I need to read.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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Lover of books, lover of knowledge.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

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What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can't get that from a computer.

~ Sarah Jio

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Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.

~ S.a. Tawks

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A man who looks like Frodo just spent $150 on erotica books and asked for my phone number. I considered giving him yours just to spite you.

~ Syrie James

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Judge not the value of a friend by the number of boy- or girlfriends they helped you get. But by the number of books they’ve recommended to you.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

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Altogether, I can't imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there.

~ Gloria Steinem

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The average buyer in bookshop spends 8 seconds on the front cover and 15 seconds on the back cover before deciding whether to purchase the book or not. On average, he does not get past page 18. See? The odds are stacked against us writers!

~ Ashwin Sanghi

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I find things hidden in books: dried flowers, locks of hair, tickets, labels, receipt, invoices, photographs, postcards, all manner of cards. I find letters, unpublished works by the ordinary, the anguished, the illiterate. Clumsily written or eloquent, they are love letters, everyday letters, secret letters and mundane letters talking about fruit and babies and tennis matches, from people signing themselves as Majorie or Jean....I can't bring myself to dispose of these snippets and snapshots of lives that once meant (or still do mean) so much.

~ Louise Walters

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A bookstore is one of the many pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.

~ Jerry Seinfeld

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Books are to the mind as the whetstone for the knives.

~ Aman Jassal

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