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Truth is what every man sees ...

Truth is what every man sees lurking at the bottom of his own soul, like the oyster shell housewives put in the kitchen kettle to collect the lime from the water. By and by each man's iridescent oyster shell of Truth becomes coated with the lime of prejudice and hearsay.

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A doctor is advertised by the...

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!

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The most interesting persons ...

The most interesting persons are always those who have nothing special to do: children, nurses, policemen and actors at 11 o'clock in the morning.

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The world has been printing b...

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.

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Beware of the conversationali...

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "in other words." He is merely starting afresh.

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We visit bookshops not so oft...

We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.

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The everlasting lure of round...

The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.

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There is no mistaking a real ...

There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love, and like that colossal adventure it is an experience of great social import. Even as the tranced swain, the booklover yearns to tell others of his bliss. He writes letters about it, adds it to the postscript of all manner of communications, intrudes it into telephone messages, and insists on his friends writing down the title of the find. Like the simple-hearted betrothed, once certain of his conquest

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Men talk of "finding God," bu...

Men talk of "finding God," but no wonder it is difficult; He is hidden in that darkest hiding-place, your heart. You yourself are a part of Him.

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Any man worth his salt has by...

Any man worth his salt has by the time he is forty-five accumulated a crown of thorns, and the problem is to learn to wear it over one ear.

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How womanly it is to ask the u...

How womanly it is to ask the unanswerable at the moment impossible.

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Fifty percent of the world are...

Fifty percent of the world are women, yet they always seem a novelty.

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Friendships do not grow up in ...

Friendships do not grow up in any carefully tended and contemplated fashion.... They begin haphazard.

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They go in [to the library] no...

They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.

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From now until the end of time...

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

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Poetry comes with anger, hunge...

Poetry comes with anger, hunger and dismay; it does not often visit groups of citizens sitting down to be literary together, and would appal them if it did.

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A mind too proud to unbend ove...

A mind too proud to unbend over the small ridiculosa of life is as painful as a library with no trash in it.

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Truth, like milk, arrives in t...

Truth, like milk, arrives in the dark But even so, wise dogs don't bark. Only mongrels make it hard For the milkman to come up the yard.

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New York is Babylon : Brooklyn...

New York is Babylon : Brooklyn is the truly Holy City. New York is the city of envy, office work, and hustle; Brooklyn is the region of homes and happiness.... There is no hope for New Yorkers, for their glory in Their skyscraping sins; but in Brooklyn there is the wisdom of the lowly.

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Blessed is the satirist; and b...

Blessed is the satirist; and blessed the ironist; blessed the witty scoffer, and blessed the sentimentalist; for each, having seen one spoke of the wheel, thinks to have seen all, and is content.

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