Douglas Tompkins Quotes
I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.
Douglas Tompkins
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The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention.
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Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.
Kate Morton
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I know all of the antiques stores in Buenos Aires. I've been in every one of them, picking things out.
Douglas Tompkins
