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Twice Told Books is a small independent used bookstore located on the Russian River in Northern California with a current inventory of more than 18,000 mostly recycled books. I have always loved the unmistakable smell of bookstores and the alluring look and feel of books. I like to think of this bookstore as a portal to other worlds and experiences, with each book ready to take you on a journey into the writer's creativity and your own imagination. |
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The mission of Twice Told Books is to encourage and support creativity and the arts, especially the supposed declining interest in reading and writing books. I hope to maintain a focus on cultivating the craft of the written word and encouraging the love of books by keeping them alive and circulating among readers and collectors. |
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| For many readers, books are both a diversion from the doldrums of their daily lives and an introduction to a new way of looking at something or understanding the world around us. They can take us on fantastic flights into fictional worlds, paint a stark picture of the hard realities of life, lead us to unknown truths, and touch the soul in profoundly moving ways. |
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| Books are timeless treasures regardless of whether they are richly bound in textured leather and embossed with gilt lettering or simply modest well worn paperbacks with underlining and margin notes. They are sacred in the way that they carry on the memories and histories of that which came before us. Books can make you burst out laughing or break down in tears. They can help you see what you otherwise would never see, and give you hope that some other unexpected written treasure still awaits you. |
| There are books that you can breeze through for fun mindless pleasure and there are books that you delay finishing because you can't bear the thought of them coming to an end. So keep on reading and if you have it in you write that great novel or simple elegant poem that is waiting to escape from your dreams. |
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"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was."
Ernest Hemingway (1899–1961), American writer |
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“Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.”
Samuel Butler (1835-1902), British writer | |
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“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum -- of both books and money! But especially books, for books represent infinitely more than money. A book is not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have possessed a book with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But when you pass it on you are enriched threefold.”
Henry Miller (1891–1980), American writer |
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"The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts."
John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892), American poet | |
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“Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors.”
Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British writer | |
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“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
Marina Tsvetaeva (1892–1941), Russian poet |
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