“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk and walk around me. There's only one way to lay the ghost of a book, and that is to read it.”

— Christopher Morley , book The Haunted Bookshop

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American journalist, novelist, essayist and poet 1890–1957

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