Quotes from book
The Haunted Bookshop
The Haunted Bookshop is a 1919 novel by Christopher Morley, now in the public domain in the United States.
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“There is indeed a heaven on this earth, a heaven which we inhabit when we read a good book.”
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
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.
“Printer's ink has been running a race against gunpowder these many, many years.”
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.
