I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization. Jerry Pinto
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The world is now full of books, but it wasn't always so. When people first started writing, they did so out of necessity or simply because they were bored. The earliest books were written by scribes and priests, people who needed to record the word of God in order to teach people about Him. Later, books were written for entertainment or for educational purposes.

Much later still, people began to write books that they wanted read. This is the point that T.S. Eliot was referring to when he wrote, “The world is now full of books, but it wasn't always so.”

Source: Em And The Big Hoom

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