The Haunted Bookshop (1919)
Context: Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years. Ink is handicapped, in a way, because you can blow up a man with gunpowder in half a second, while it may take twenty years to blow him up with a book. But the gunpowder destroys itself along with its victim, while a book can keep on exploding for centuries.
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Variant: 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.
Source: Parnassus on Wheels
“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“There's no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
Variant: There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
Source: Pipefuls
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
On Visiting Bookshops http://books.google.com/books?id=6H0hAAAAMAAJ&q=%22We+visit+bookshops+not+so+often+to+buy+any+one+special+book+but+rather+to+rediscover+in+the+happier+and+more+expressive+words+of+others+our+own+encumbered+soul%22&pg=PA82#v=onepage, Pipefuls (1921)