129 Quotes About Bookstores
- Author Lawrence Ferlinghetti
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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.
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- Author Roger Ebert
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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.
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- Author Jerry Pinto
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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.
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- Author Veronica Henry
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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.
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- Author Melissa Albert
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My heart settled as I walked in, breathing coffee and paper and sunburnt dust. Like all good bookshops, Edgar's was a pocket universe, where time moved slow as clouds.
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- Author Peter Ackroyd
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What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?
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- Author Lailah Gifty Akita
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The pleasure of reading is the greatest solitude.
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- Author Albert Mohler Jr.
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If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Choosing to buy a particular book over others only or mainly because it is the cheapest is excusable only if you are learning to read.
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