Used Bookstores Quotes

• I was digging for stuff in a used bookstore, and I came upon 'Little Sister.' I fell in love with Chandler that night. I fell right down the rabbit hole of crime fiction.

  Robert Crais

  Night, Little Sister, Rabbits

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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

  Years, Issues, Mad

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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, Writing, Thinking

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• I often think . . . that the bookstores that will save civilization are not online, nor on campuses, nor named Borders, Barnes & Noble, Dalton, or Crown. They are the used bookstores, in which, for a couple of hundred dollars, one can still find, with some diligence, the essential books of our culture, from the Bible and Shakespeare to Plato, Augustine, and Pascal.

  James V. Schall

  Couple, Plato, Book

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• I learned more about history and literature in the used bookstores in DC than in college libraries.

  Douglas Brinkley

  College, Library, Bookstores

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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