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“Customer: Do you have any medical textbooks?
Bookseller: Sorry, no. They go out of date so quickly we don't stock them, but I can order one in for you.
Customer: I'm not worried about it being in date.
Bookseller: Does your university not request you have a specific edition?
Customer: Oh, I'm not a medical student. I just want to learn how to do stitches.
Bookseller: ... Right.
Customer: Do you have a book on sewing instead?”
― Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
Bookseller: Sorry, no. They go out of date so quickly we don't stock them, but I can order one in for you.
Customer: I'm not worried about it being in date.
Bookseller: Does your university not request you have a specific edition?
Customer: Oh, I'm not a medical student. I just want to learn how to do stitches.
Bookseller: ... Right.
Customer: Do you have a book on sewing instead?”
― Weird Things Customers Say in Bookshops
“..what a terrible thing a dissatisfied mind is.”
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“Sometimes blessings are indiscriminate.”
― Saint Mazie
― Saint Mazie
“Words: with them you can do and undo as you please.”
― The Story of a New Name
― The Story of a New Name
“Reading and writing are closed-room activities, which literally take you away from the gaze of others. The greater risk is that they also remove others from your gaze.”
― Fragments: Elena Ferrante on Writing, Reading, and Anonymity
― Fragments: Elena Ferrante on Writing, Reading, and Anonymity
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