Depressing quote of the day

From the New Yorker's piece on Michael Seidenberg's secret bookstore in New York City...

After closing a previous iteration of his bookstore, Seidenberg tried selling books on the street.

“Once, a couple stopped,” he recalled. “And the man asked his girlfriend, ‘Do you want a book?’ She said, ‘No, I already have a book.’”

(hat tip)

Comments

[Elaine Flinn]

Ouch.

[Doug Riddle]

I really want to believe that she meant she already had a book she was reading at the time....but,then again, I write fiction

[Patrick Balester]

Maybe she's a very, very slow reader.

[andrew hall]

That's a wonderful anecdote - it sounds like something Henny Youngman (might not be spellin the correctly) might say.

[spyscribbler]

Wow. I have no words. Frightening.

[Bob Berger]

That was originally said by Carol Lombard when asked what she wanted for Xmas

[landy]

I can't agree to her more