#bookstore

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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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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We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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I was a huge fan of 'Mad' magazine when I was 11, 12, 13 years old. I'd scour used bookstores trying to find back issues, and I'd wait at the newsstand for a new issue to come out. My life revolved around it. ↗

— Al Yankovic

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Here, you can walk into a bookstore and pick up a Bible or Christian literature and learn. Over there, they are lucky if they have one Bible for a whole village. ↗

— Michael Scott

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Genre is a bookstore problem, not a literary problem. ↗

— Rick Moody

#genre #literary #problem

To my mind there is nothing so beautiful or so provocative as a secondhand book store...To me it is astonishing and miraculous to think that any one of us can poke among the stalls for something to read overnight--and that this something may be the sum of a lifetime of sweat, tears, and genius that some poor, struggling, blessed fellow expended trying to teach us the truth. ↗

— Lionel Barrymore

#bookstores #wisdom #beauty

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

— Jerry Seinfeld

#beautiful #bookstores #humor #so #beauty

I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me. ↗

— Tahereh Mafi

#bookshelves #bookstore #friend #love

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. ↗

— Jerry Pinto

#bookstores #reading #love