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“A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with butt...”
“The luminescent flow of a sunbathed garden illuminating the shifting colors of its inhabitants echoed in my memory as I opened the antique bookstore door in the shaft of window light. The books, li...”
“I don't feel sorry for myself, Beck. Lots of people have shitty parents and roaches in the cabinets and stale, raw Pop-Tarts for dinner and a TV that barely works and a dad who doesn't care when hi...”
“On the best nights, hed appear outside the bookstore window and wait for me to unlock the door. He usually hadnt had time to shower between doing things with cattle and horses and coming to find me...”
“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 woul...”
“Its always the end of the world, said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazons top executives. You could set your watch on it arriving. He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways changi...”
“This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.”
“The luminescent flow of a sunbathed garden— illuminating the shifting colors of its inhabitants— echoed in my memory as I opened the antique bookstore door in the shaft of window light. The books, ...”
“On the best nights, he’d appear outside the bookstore window and wait for me to unlock the door. He usually hadn’t had time to shower between doing things with cattle and horses and coming to find ...”
“It’s always the end of the world,” said Russell Grandinetti, one of Amazon’s top executives. “You could set your watch on it arriving.” He pointed out, though, that the landscape was in some ways c...”
