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What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.
— David Mitchell
What I learnt came to me . . . at second and at third hand, in chunks and puzzles, degrees and flashes.
— Sybille Bedford
What is love but a second-hand emotion?
— Tina Turner
A perfect treat must include a trip to a second-hand bookshop.
— Virginia Woolf
He prefers his adventures second hand.
— Sara Sheridan
your second-hand bicycles in the alleyways
— John Altman
I can tell you that second hand smoke is not a health hazard to anyone and never was, and the EPA has always known it.
— Michael Crichton
It's the way his pinky hooks with mine, just for a second, before he full-on cups my hand.
— Krista Ritchie
I had a confused early hippie phase, which was like a cafeteria tray of sloppy, semi-Marxist thoughts, absorbed second-hand.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
— Herta Muller
Of life's two chief prizes, beauty and truth, I found the first in a loving heart and the second in a laborer's hand.
— Kahlil Gibran
On the instant when we come to realize that tragedy is second-hand.
— William Faulkner
I laid a hand on his cheek; it was so bright that for a second I thought it was burning me, a pure painless fire.
— Tana French
Is there anything more plausible than a second hand?
— Julian Barnes
Mark Twain said "all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.
— Sean Patrick
I am very happy in second-hand bookshops; would a gardener not be happy in a garden?
— Hilary Mantel
If second hand smoke is killing that many people and nicotine is so addictive then why is no one addicted to second hand smoke?
— Doug Stanhope
The information I have about Iran is second hand.
— Marjane Satrapi
Second hand books have a way of travelling, sure. But what travels forward can come back.
— Cath Crowley
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man.
— John Le Carre
For years, I was quite a militant atheist. I wanted to burn down all the churches or turn them into second-hand record emporiums.
— Michel Faber
When a spy sells something entirely new, all he needs to do is recount something you could find in any second-hand book stall.
— Umberto Eco
An elaborate watch may deserve more for a second-hand look
— Priyavrat Thareja
The best way to look stylish on a budget is to try second-hand, bargain hunting, and vintage.
— Orlando Bloom
A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
— Cyril Connolly
A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second hand, George.
— Dennis Miller
Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.
— Leigh Hunt
I grew up on second hand bookshops and libraries.
— Charles Stross
I love going to second-hand stores.
— Victoria Justice
Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.
— John Paul Caponigro
Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?
— George Carlin
Why is the third hand on a watch called a second hand?
— Steven Wright
All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
— George Henry Lewes
People are nice enough, but you can hear the giant tick of the second hand. People are so harried.
— David Ogden Stiers
Demons do tend to cluster around the yellowing pages and cracked spines of second hand books.
— Graham Joyce
A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
— Samuel Butler
I do a lot of vintage shopping. I love going to second-hand stores.
— Victoria Justice
Contemporaries live from second hand to mouth.
— Karl Kraus
When the imagination takes over, the second hand could be the hour hand to a creator of stories.
— S.A. Tawks
I'm sorry you grew up without me and that fatherly moments came second hand like clothing and toys from your brothers ...
— Stephan Lawrence Theodore Clifford
Even when each tick of the second hand aches like the pulse of blood behind a bruise. Pass it does. Even for me.
— Stephenie Meyer
Force is as pitiless to the man who possesses it as it is to its victims - the second it crushes, the first it intoxicates.
— Paul Hoffman
Marrying an old bachelor is like buying second-hand furniture.
— H. Jackson Brown Jr.
No one gets up after death-there is no applause-there is only silence and some second-hand clothes, and that's death.
— Tom Stoppard
I am playing in a playground that's already been played in. I am always aware that a lot of the furniture in science fiction is second hand.
— Alastair Reynolds
He nearly always put his hand on his friend's arm and looked for a second into his face before leaving him.
— Carson McCullers
A quote from "Dead Men Don't Kill.These were tears from heaven. They were second hand sadness. — Viveca Benoir
For one half second, I wondered what it would feel like to put my hand in the fire. What it would feel like when I burned ...
— Stephenie Meyer
If someone around you is multitasking, you pick up distraction like second-hand smoke.
— Clay Shirky
Let us not be too particular. It is better to have old second-hand diamonds than none at all.
— Mark Twain
