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A happy man may be a successful bishop, dog-catcher, movie actor or sausage-monger, but no happy man ever produced a first-rate piece of painting, sculpture, music or literature. George Jean Nathan

For those of us who are at least partially dependent on the big bookstore chain: Do you visit them? What's your sense of how they're doing?

“When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night - there’s all heaven and earth in a book, a real book I mean.” Christopher Morley

A man should live if only to satisfy his curiosity. Yiddish Proverb