Booksellers are still primarily dealers in 1) paper and 2) social goods — books are merely the low-profit-but-high-prestige emblem of that intersection.
The psychic integrity in which self-confidence consists can be ruptured by the pressure of unresolved discrepancies and conflicts among the various things that we love.
— Harry Frankfurt, The Reasons of Love
The first (only?) edition of Freedom Press, published by yours truly in 1995.
At the same time, for each, there was a disjunction between what he loved and what most people loved him for.
