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It's not as though there is anything wrong with being American, although perhaps in a land of immigrants the only way to differentiate yourself is to cling onto a piece of the land you left, even if it is several generations behind you.
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Any bookseller will tell you that, even with 100,000 booksneatly sorted and shelved in a well-lit, warm shop, if you put an unopened box of books in a dark, cold, dimly lit corner, customers will be riffling through it in a matter of moments. The appeal of a box of unsorted, unpriced stock is extroidinary.
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...people still cling to the notion that first editions are somehow imbued with a magical and financial value.
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Awomen spent ten minutes looking around the shop, then told me that she was a retired librarian. I suspect she thought this was some kind of a bond between us. Not so. On the whole, booksellers dislike librarians.
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When the old man in the crumpled suit came to the counter to pay for the copy of Dostoyevsky's The Idiot, I discreetly pointed out that his fly was open. He glanced down - as if for confirmation of this - then looked back at me and said, 'A dead bird can't fall out of it's nest', and left the shop fly still agape.
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Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy books (which is basically the same thing).
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It should go without saying that anyone who introduces themselves as 'a bit weird' is almost certainly not.
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A less than friendly email this morning... [from a booksop customer]After lunch I went to my parents' house to get my shotgun and shoot a kindle (broken screen, bought on eBay for £10)
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Prefacing a sentence with 'I don't want to appear rude, but...' flags up the same alarm bells as 'I am not racist, but...' It's quite simple: if you don't want to appear rude, don't be rude. If you're not a racist, don't behave like a racist.
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