Jules de Goncourt Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: December 17, 1830 - June 20, 1870
Birthday: December 17
Death: June 20
A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.
topic: Book, Friendly, Down And, Little Time, Browsing, Bookshops, Booksellers
