Used Books Quotes

• Solía tener extrañas prácticas en las abarrotadas tiendas de libros usados de New York, donde entraba y simplemente pisaba fuerte para ver qué caía de la estantería. Y claro, como es un encuentro inesperado, siempre surge algo mágico.

  Saúl Williams

  New York, Libro, Práctica

  Fuente: www.mtv.com

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• Los libros usados son las putas del mundo literario. Pasan de persona en persona, desparramando sus páginas por cualquiera, abaratándose cada vez más hasta que finalmente acaban en la cárcel.

  Stephen Colbert

  Book, World, Pages

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• I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them.

  J. Robert Lennon

  Book, Annoyed, Assuming

  "Cómo leen los escritores (Vol. 3)". Entrevista en The Believer, logger.believermag.com. 11 de diciembre de 2014.

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• Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence.

  James Surowiecki

  Depressing, Book, Years

  "Class Action". www.newyorker.com. November 7, 2005.

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• As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop)

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Baby, Book, Saws

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.426, A&C Black

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• I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years

  Laura Hillenbrand

  Book, Years, House

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