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Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2) QUOTES

1 " Коли я виставляв ціни на видання, до мене підійшов старший чоловік і попросив:
- Не допоможете мені знайти книжки із самодопомоги?
Певний, що він не помітив у цій фразі суперечності, я спитав, яка самодопомога його цікавить. Той відповів:
- Сам не знаю. "

― Shaun Bythell , Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

2 " Після роботи записав у саду коротке відео про те, як оновити кіндл до моделі Kindle Fire. Потрібно два літри бензину й сірники. "

― Shaun Bythell , Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

3 " Money can't buy happiness, BUT it can buy books (which is basically the same thing). "

― Shaun Bythell , Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

4 " Paljude aastate eest, kui aitasin isal lambaid niita (ehk pügada), uuris üks pügajatest, mees nimega Lesley Drysdale, kui kaua on isa Galloways elanud. Isa vastas, et tema ja minu ema on siin elanud kakskümmend aastat. Pügaja vastas, et viie aasta pärast on isa seal elanud piisavalt kaua, et teda võiks pidada püsiasukaks. On kummastav tunda, et kohas, mis näib sulle kodusem kui miski muu, peavad ülejäänud sind tulnukaks. Lauge mägimaastik, looklevad jõed ja Macharsi metsik rannik on nii tihedalt saanud minu enesetunnetuse osaks, et kui elaksin kusagil mujal, oleks see osa minust vist lihtsalt olemata. (lk. 99) "

― Shaun Bythell , Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

5 " This afternoon there was a very satisfying encounter involving a customer who began requesting a discount on a pile of books about the Rolls-Royce company. His friend prodded him in the back and said, ‘You’ve got some nerve, asking for a discount from this poor bloke while you drive about in your fancy Rolls-Royces.’ He didn’t get a discount. "

― Shaun Bythell , Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

6 " Karl-Heinz ‘fed’ me the entire book over the next seven weeks. The metaphor is exact. The thin wads of pages were like crucial scraps of nutrition. I devoured them. I masticated, swallowed and digested that book. I cracked its bones and sipped its marrow; every fibre of meat, every cartilaginous module of gristle was dined on with gourmandising fervour. "

― Shaun Bythell , Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)

7 " very broadly speaking—people can be divided into two groups: those who have worked in a bar, or café, or restaurant, or shop, and those who have not. And while it would be both unfair and untrue to say that everyone in the latter category treats those in the former as a second-class citizen, it is probably accurate to say that virtually nobody from the first category will do so. "

― Shaun Bythell , Confessions of a Bookseller (Diary of a Bookseller, #2)