Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
5416
AUTHOR:
Donald Walker, Associate Director, Branch Library Programs and Services, NY Public Library
QUOTATION:
These are the favored ones—year after year—read under dim spot lamps in taxis or air shuttles, balanced on subways, carried on boardwalks and into bathtubs. They develop broken spines, pages like prune skin or go to their reward in the land of lost umbrellas.
ATTRIBUTION:
On library books that are most often worn out or stolen, NY Times 28 Sep 86
