Philip Kerr Quote

A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, books would become like quacks' potions, with every mountebank in the newspapers claiming one volume's superiority over another.


Dark Matter: The Private Life of Sir Isaac Newton: A Novel (ed. Crown, 2010) - ISBN: 9780307519306


A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, ...

A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, ...

A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, ...

A man's bookseller should keep his confidence, like his physician. What can become of a world where every man knows what another man reads? Why, sir, ...