Open my own Book Store / e-cafe!

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Anonymous

Yess, this is a seet one, that doesnt neccessarily take too much because I can decide how big or small it will be. I will paint the waals in soothing colors, play mozart and other classical music in the background, burn incents and candles to make the atmosphere cosy. Then te furniture is deep, soft couches and chairs with lots of pillows and curtains with beautiful colors. The cafe part will have hardwood floor and cute little round tables to sit around. The people working there are really hand picked, upbeat, positive, funny and relaxed souls. This will be a place where it’s fun to work and soothing to visit. YAY! I want to open these places in several different countries; Paris, San Francisco, Tenerife, Hawaii, Oslo, Seattle, etc.etc.

- Lawrence D. Bell

Remember that when I open my business.

%{color:green}Books, the children of the brain.
Jonathan Swift%

%{color:orange}Let my temptation be a book.
Eugene Field%

%{color:purple}All humanity is passion: without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual.
Honoré de Balzac%

%{color:brown}Poetry and Hums aren’t things which you get, they’re things which get you.
Winnie the Pooh%

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
Cicero

%{color:blue}The book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.
Franz Kafka%

%{color:brown}The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow%

%{color:red}I conceive that a knowledge of books is the basis on which all other knowledge rests
George Washington%

Two Lives Are Yours

Books I think
Are extra nice.
Through books you live
Not once but twice.

You are yourself
And you are things
With fur or fins
Or shells or wings,

As big as giants,
Small as gnats,
As far as stars
As close as cats.

You live today
And long ago.
The future, too,
Is yours to know.

You’re multiplied,
Expanded, freed.
You’re you and also
What you read.

Richard Armour

%{color:blue}When I get a little money I buy books;
and if any is left I buy food and clothes.
Erasmus%

%{color:red}Education is a companion which no misfortune can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can enslave.
At home a friend, abroad an introduction, in solitude a solace, in society an ornament.
It chastens vice, it guides vertue, it gives at once , grace and government to genius.
Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage.
Joseph Addison%

The libraries of America are and must ever remain the home of the free, inguiring minds. To them, our citizens – of all ages and races, of all creeds and political persuasions – must ever be able to turn with clear confidences that there they can freely seek the whole truth, unwarped by fashion and uncompromised by expediency.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

%{color:red}Reading maketh a full man.
Francis Bacon%

%{color:blue}I grew up in a small town with a very small library. But the books in the library opened a large place in my heart. It is the place where stories live. And those stories have been informing my days, comforting my nights, and extending possibilities ever since. If that library had not been there, if the books – such as they were – had not been free, my world would be poor, even today.
Marion Dane Bauer%

%{color:green}We have preserved the Book, and the Book has preserved us.
David Ben-Gurion%

%{color:brown}Libraries are not made; they grow.
Augustine Birrell%

%{color:red}All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.
Richard de Bury%

%{color:dark blue}The truth is that every book we read, like every person we meet, has the capacity to change our lives. And though we can be sure our children will meet people, we must, must create, these days, their chance to meet books.
Susan Cooper%

%{color:blue}A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life
Norman Cousins%

%{color:light blue}Someone said, “the dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.” Precisely, and they are that which we know.
T.S. Eliot%

%{color:brown}Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.
Augustus Hare%

%{color:red}The printed page illuminates the mind of a man and defies, as afar as anything sublimary can, the corrosive hand of time.
Denys Hay%

%{color:pink}The foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on the sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in anyhow.
Oliver Wendell Holmes%

%{color:brown}Much of whatever appreciation or understanding I have of myself and of other people I owe to the books I have read.
Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard%

The man who does not read books has not advantage over the man who can’t read them.

I’ll be your friend,
stay by your side,
contradict you,
make you laugh or teary-eyed
On a sun-summer morning.

I’ll spark you,
help you sleep,
bring dreams
you’ll forever keep
On a dappled-autumn afternoon.

I’ll warm you,
keep you kindled,
dazzle you,
till storms have dwindled
On a snow-flaked winter evening.

I’ll plant in you,
a spring-seedling
with bursting life
while you are reading.

I am the book
you are needing.

Tom Robert Shields
1938-2000

It has been a goal of mine since I first walked into The Book Nook bookstore when I was 8, to open one just like it. I love books, I’ll read what ever I can get my hands on. Just recently I took a business course and thought about added an e-cafe to my bookstore. I think it will fly! Gawd, I hope so!!!