#bookstore

As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart. ↗

— Karen Kingsbury

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One of the smartest things one can do in life sometimes…is play stupid. Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

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It wouldn’t matter if he was a bad boy , if you got rid of your bad habit. Be encouraged ↗

— Kerry E. Wagner

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

— Oprah Winfrey

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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

#coffee #computer #cup #drink #full-time

My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore. ↗

— Kate DiCamillo

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The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist. ↗

— Bruce Boxleitner

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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, "Where's the self-help section?" She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose. ↗

— George Carlin

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Where's your church?" "We're standing in it." "But this is a bookstore and it's a Friday." "Yes, but you might also choose to see it as a cathedral of the human spirit-a storehouse consecrated to the full spectrum of human experience. Just about every idea we've ever had is in here somewhere. A place containing great thinking is a sacred space. ↗

— Forrest Church

#book-lover #books #bookstore #faith #hope

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. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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