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George Stephen

"So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books."

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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."

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"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."

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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."

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"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."

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"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"

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"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

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"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

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"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."

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"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
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