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Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.

Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.
– Louis LAmour

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  1. I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant. – Louis LAmour
  2. Altogether, I can’t imagine technology replacing bookstores completely, any more than movies about a country replace going there. – Gloria Steinem
  3. Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. – Anne Herbert
  4. I was expected to reach for those plump breasts by now, but I was still busy window-shopping, browsing through the scene of my life. – Nikhil Bhardwaj
  5. A journey is time suspended. – Louis LAmour
  6. Personally, I do not believe the human mind has any limits but those we impose ourselves. – Louis LAmour
  7. Because a man plays a king superbly well does not mean that he would make a good king. – Louis LAmour
  8. Many a small man is considered good while he remains small, but let power come to him, and he becomes a raging fury. – Louis LAmour
  9. Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others. – Louis LAmour
  10. …he’d had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes. – Louis LAmour
  11. When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is. – Louis LAmour
  12. The wealthy and satisfied do not migrate, they stagnate. – Louis LAmour
  13. If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined. – Louis LAmour
  14. There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. – Louis LAmour
  15. Now, tomorrow Miss Laurie McCrae and me, we have an appointment with a sky pilot who will make it proper for us to travel in double harness. – Louis LAmour
  16. Never can tell when you might come on somebody needs skinning. – Louis LAmour
  17. …if we are to become a land of homes and people, evil men must not be allowed to persist in their evil. – Louis LAmour
  18. Someone has said that culture is what remains with you after you have forgotten all you have read, and I believe there is much truth in that. – Louis LAmour
  19. Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone. – Louis LAmour
  20. violence is an evil thing, but when the guns are all in the hands of the men without respect for human rights, then men are really in trouble. – Louis LAmour
  21. I’ve a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast. – Louis LAmour
  22. It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy. – Louis LAmour
  23. A writer’s brain is like a magician’s hat. If you’re going to get anything out of it, you have to put something in it first – Louis LAmour
  24. those of us who read because we love it more than anything, who feel about bookstores the way some people feel about jewelers… – Anna Quindlen
  25. -¦secondhand bookstores have pilgrims. The words out of print are a call to arms for those who seek a Holy Grail made of paper and ink. – Kathleen Tessaro
  26. What is childhood without stories? And how will children fall in love with stories without bookstores? You can’t get that from a computer. – Sarah Jio
  27. Wherever I go, bookstores are still the closest thing to a town square. – Gloria Steinem
  28. If you accept life as a competition you will never be completely happy but if you accept life as a journey you will always be happy – MY SELF
  29. I love walking into a bookstore. It’s like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me. – Tahereh Mafi
  30. Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace. – Helene Hanff
  31. The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave. – Anne Sexton
  32. When I look at my bookcase and see the books upon the shelves, I think to myself, There is a God. – Sully Tarnish
  33. When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other upon its shelves, I think to myself, There is a God. – Sully Tarnish
  34. The dreams of youth grow dim where they lie caked with dust on the shelves of patience. Before we know it, the tomb is sealed. – Sterling Hayden
  35. The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching. – Graham Greene
  36. There are things that can be forgotten. And things that cannot – that sit on dusty shelves like stuffed birds with baleful, sideways staring eyes. – Arundhati Roy
  37. When I look at my bookcase and see one book after the other lined up upon its shelves I think to myself, There is a God. – Sully Tarnish
  38. I saw her face then, and I recognized something of myself in her expression. Her eyes flicked over the shelves, seeking possibilities for escape. – Maggie Stiefvater
  39. About eighty percent of the food on shelves of supermarkets today didn’t exist 100 years ago. – Larry McCleary
  40. facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been. – Leslie Jamison

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