Books on Tap

Books and brew. Fiction and fermentation. Codices and charcuterie. Plots and pots. Heroes and haricot verts. Simmering suspence. 718 S. Austin Ave., Georgetown, Texas 78626 www.booksontaptx.com

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"A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking." — Jerry Seinfeld

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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting." bookporn

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"Life, just as we first thought, is playing grownup." -- John Updike, RABBIT IS RICH

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No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting.

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“Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come / Whispering ‘It will be happier.’”  —  Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Find what you love and let it kill you.

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“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”

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The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

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Pouring out liquor is like burning books.

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“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

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Today, readers of the world have lost a giant man with a giant mind, and an even bigger heart. Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize winner, has passed. Rest in wonder, Mr. Heaney.

Here is his poem “Song.”

A rowan like a lipsticked girl.

Between the by-road and the main road

Alder trees at a wet and dripping distance

Stand off among the rushes.

There are the mud-flowers of dialect

And the immortelles of perfect pitch

And that moment when the bird sings very close

To the music of what happens.

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“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” 

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"I know not all that may be coming, but be what it will, I'll go to it laughing." 

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"There is not friend as loyal as a book."

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The worst thing about online bookstores...

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The worst thing about online bookstores is that you find what you were looking for. The worst thing about bookstores is that you find what you weren't looking for.