"The connection between authors, printers, and booksellers must be kept up."

-- James Boswell

#Connections Quotes #Printer Quotes #Booksellers Quotes

“Real orgies are never so exciting as pornographic books. In a volume by Pierre Louys all the girls are young and their figures perfect; there's no hiccoughing or bad breath, no fatigue or boredom, no sudden recollections of unpaid bills or business letters unanswered, to interrupt the raptures. Art gives you the sensation, the thought, the feeling quite pure--chemically pure, I mean,... not morally.”
“This is alchemy, and this is the office of Vulcan; he is the apothecary and chemist of the medicine.”
“While I never served in uniform, I fully understand the great service and sacrifice that our brave men and women have given to our country.”

Source : "Taking Veterans’ Concerns Seriously" by Rep. Marc Veasey, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2014.
“There's an old saying in the black community that everybody else is protected and served but we are policed, we don't want to be policed. We want to be protected and served as any American citizen.”
“I could serve coffee using my rear as a ledge.”
“Betrayal, in one form or another, is at the very heart of the world of intelligence.”

Source : The Man Who Kept the Secrets (1979).
“From an early age I loved horror movies. I read books about horror, cops, firemen and military. Over the course of the years I started to see that there's a reality to this. The first movie I was really conscious of seeing was THE EXORCIST and I don't know if any of you have seen that but it scared the sh*t out of me. It really frightened me.”
“It takes a heap o' children to make a home that's true,And home can be a palace grand, or just a plain, old shoe;But if it has a mother dear, and a good old dad or two,Why, that's the sort of good old home for good old me and you.”

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