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That's what this country needs -- more books!

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The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking.

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A good book ought to have something simple about it. And, like Eve, it ought to come from somewhere near the third rib: there ought to be a heart beat...more

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Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human e...more

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The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: ...more

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social ...more

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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.

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We have all sorts of conditions of booksellers: one is fanatic on the subject of libraries. He thinks that every public library should be dynamited. A...more

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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains...more

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A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is diffe...more

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Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpo...more

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Books are the immortality of the race, the father and mother of most that is worth while cherishing in our hearts. To spread good books about, to sow ...more