"My adrenaline started pumping anytime I was within a hundred yards of a bookshop. I loved books nearly as much as I loved clothes. And that's saying something. The feel of them and the smell of them. A bookshop was like like an Aladdin's Cave for me. Entire worlds and lives can be found just behind that glossy cover. All you had to do was look."

-- Hilma Wolitzer

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“Never do a thing concerning the rectitude of which you are in doubt.”

Source : Pliny (the Younger.), William Melmoth (1805). “The Letters of Pliny the Consul”, p.51
“To contemplation's sober eye, Such is the race of man; And they that creep, and they that fly, Shall end where they began, Alike the busy and the gay, But flutter through life's little day.”
“The arts are encroaching one upon another, and from a proper use of this encroachment will rise the art that is truly monumental.”
“If I don't terrorize, I'm not Pop.”
“I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.”
“You can't wear revealing clothes because of the sex addicts. Instead, you wear big bras, big pants and baggy tops. You're taught to respect others' addictions.”
“No one could have called Mr. Standen quick-witted, but the possession of three sisters had considerably sharpened his instinct of self-preservation.”
“In the mighty and almost limitless potential of American industry-the brilliance and rugged determination of its leaders; the skill, energy and patriotism of its workers-there has been welded an almost impregnable defense against the evil designs of any who would threaten the security of the American continent. It is indeed the most forceful and convincing argument yet evolved to restrain the irresponsibility of those who would recklessly bring down upon the good and peace-loving peoples of all the nations of the earth the disaster of total war.”

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