"It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore."

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Source : "Cheap Words" by George Packer, www.newyorker.com. February 17 & 24, 2014.

George Packer

#Amazon Quotes #Bookstores Quotes

“My idols were Michael Jackson and The Beatles and I would watch Justin Timberlake and John Mayer perform and I knew I wanted to do what they were doing!”

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“How much in love with himself, and that too without a rival!”
“Money gives you the power to do whatever you want to do. I like the idea of being in complete control of my life.”

Source : "Anything but a kept woman" by Neasa MacErlean, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2001.
“There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.”
“Find something useful to do with your morning,' she thought to him as she neared her chambers. 'Do something heroic in front of an audience. Knock a child into a river while no one's looking and then rescue him.”
“Just because I didn't do what you told me, doesn't mean I wasn't listening to you!”
“As for the many followers of the Koran being slaughtered daily by Islamic terrorists, the world will have to wait until Barack Obama is out of office before America's might will be used to save these Muslims.”
“Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.”

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