Demetri Martin
Comedian, Actor
"If I had a bookstore I would make all the mystery novels hard to find."
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Bookstores
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Vincent Van Gogh
Painter
"Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world."
Nas
Rapper, Songwriter
"I'm a reader, so when I go to bookstores I need (stuff) that's going to help me. There a big emptiness there and I want to help fill that through song."
John Green
Author, YouTuber
"I wouldn’t have a career if it weren’t for independent bookstores."
Pharrell Williams
Musician, Producer
"I like to browse and just hang in bookstores."
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"Walking rapidly - or even slowly - through a gallery is equivalent to browsing through a bookstore and reading the blurbs."
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"My main interest was finding boyfriends. I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in."
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"Future historians will be able to study at the Jimmy Carter Library, the Gerald Ford Library, the Ronald Reagan Library, and the Bill Clinton Adult Bookstore."
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"Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores."
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"I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life."
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"Nothing will ever replace the experience of wandering haphazardly through a great bookstore, no matter how many algorithms are developed to find matches for our tastes. That's because not only is there no accounting for taste, there is no predicting it either."
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"The first thing I do in any town I come to is ask if it has a bookstore."
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"The bookstore and the coffeehouse are natural allies; Neither has a time limit, slowness is encouraged."
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"I am fatally attracted to all bookstores."
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"There are some writers I think who love to go around and visit bookstores and just interact."
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