"By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers."

-- Jason Epstein

#Cities Quotes #Support Quotes #Population Quotes

“In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Christianity is the enemy of liberty and civilization.”
“How do you show up for your relationships? Are you healthy or crippled? Are you prepared or needy? Are you ready to give or too tired to talk?”

Source : Gary Smalley, Greg Smalley, Michael Smalley, Robert S. Paul (2013). “The DNA of Relationships”, p.125, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
“And one's wandering proved as sterile and pointless as the excitement produced by a close study of pornographic albums.”

Source : Bruno Schulz, Jonathan Safran Foer, David Goldfarb (2008). “The street of crocodiles and other stories”, Penguin Classics
“I was here on earth because I chose to be.”
“Do not cringe and make yourself small if you are called the black sheep, the maverick, the lone wolf. Those with slow seeing say that a noncomformist is a blight on society. But it has been proven over the centuries, that being different means standing at the edge, that one is practically guaranteed to make an original contribution, a useful and stunning contribution to her culture.”
“The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn't an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.”
“There is no nobility with bad manners.”

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