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

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she tol...

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Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square.

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

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Do you believe that every story must have a beginning and an end? In ancient times a story could end...

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

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization. Libraries really are wonde...

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

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Joseph Gordon-LevittThe Tiny Book of Tiny Stories

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his bo...

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

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a boo...

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

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Oprah WinfreyOprah Winfrey Speaks: Insights from the World's Most Influential Voice

What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?

An honest bookstore would post the following sign above its 'self-help' section: 'For true self-help...

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Jake went in, aware that he had, for the first time in three weeks, opened a door without hoping mad...

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

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Anna QuindlenHow Reading Changed My Life

Between my first book tour, in 2003, and the next one, in 2009, many of the places I visited had und...

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Azar NafisiThe Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the s...

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