Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by George Whitman

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Last updated on December 18, 2024.
George Whitman

George Whitman was an American bookseller who lived most of his life in France. He was the founder and proprietor of Shakespeare and Company, the celebrated English-language bookstore on Paris's Left Bank. He was a contemporary of writers such as Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, and Lawrence Durrell, as well as a lifelong friend of the poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

December 12, 1913 - December 14, 2011
Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.
The business of books is the business of life.
I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life. — © George Whitman
I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.
All the world is my school and all humanity is my teacher.
Give what you can, take what you need.
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