129 Quotes About Bookstores
- Author Mark Helprin
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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.
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- Author Jo Walton
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Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries really are wonderful. They’re better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.
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- Author Alain Resnais
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I had a friend once who looked at his library and discovered that even if he completely stopped filmmaking (he was a filmmaker too) and just decided to read the books he had in his library, it would take him until he was 100 years old. He was a little bit panicked. But he was courageous. He went out of his house. He went to the bookstore. And he bought ten books.
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- Author Liam Callanan
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Every town, every book, is a way to say, look, there’s a new way, a different way. Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstore, therefore, is like a safe‑ deposit box for civilization.
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- Author Richard Due
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There is a value to books—unhackable, paper books—that measures far beyond mere ink and paper.
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- Author Gloria Steinem
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Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.
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- Author Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
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Today is the first day in history.-One of Nathan's Daily GemsFrom the 'Book Store ON Main Street'Seal Beach, CA
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- Author Virginia Woolf
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Books are everywhere; and always the same sense of adventure fills us. Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.
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- Author Liam Callanan
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Every book in a bookstore is a fresh beginning. Every book is the next iteration of a very old story. Every bookstore, therefore, is like a safe-deposit box for civilization.
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