The Black Swan in the Bookshop

The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

"I do love secondhand books that open to the page some previous owner read oftenest. The day Hazlitt came he opened to "I hate to read new books," and I hollered "Comrade!" to whoever owned it before me." - Helene Hanff, 84, Charing Cross Road

 

The Soft Machine in the Bookshop

↑How the World Works by Noam Chomsky

“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.” ~Graham Greene, Ways of Escape