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Christopher Morley

The Haunted Bookshop

  • Shirley Lovegravehar citeretfor 11 dage siden
    Surely everything that arouses people’s minds, that makes them alert and questioning, increases their appetite for books.
  • Shirley Lovegravehar citeretfor 11 dage siden
    When one views a stubborn fact from a new angle, it is amazing how all its contours and edges change shape!
  • Shirley Lovegravehar citeretfor 11 dage siden
    bits and rebuild it nearer to the heart’s desire.
  • Shirley Lovegravehar citeretfor 11 dage siden
    It is intolerable for a human being to go on doing any task as a penance, under duress. No matter what the work is, one must spiritualize it in some way, shatter the old idea of it into
  • Shirley Lovegravehar citeretfor 11 dage siden
    For paradise in the world to come is uncertain, but there is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.
  • Shirley Lovegravehar citeretfor 11 dage siden
    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 of men.
  • Shirley Lovegravehar citeretfor 11 dage siden
    real book-lovers, you know, are generally among the humbler classes. A man who is impassioned with books has little time or patience to grow rich by concocting schemes for cozening his fellows.”
  • Shirley Lovegravehar citeretfor 11 dage siden
    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: it will win.
  • Shirley Lovegravehar citeretfor 11 dage siden
    No advertisement on earth is as potent as a grateful customer
  • Shirley Lovegravehar citeretfor 11 dage siden
    The world was suffering from all sorts of mental fevers and aches and disorders, and never knew it. Now our mental pangs are only too manifest. We are all reading, hungrily, hastily, trying to find out—after the trouble is over—what was the matter with our minds
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