February 2011
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“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.”
– B.B. King (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you...”
– Markus Zusak (via enchantingallure)
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“It is time to browse through the precious books that have meant the most to you...”
– Wilferd Peterson (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.”
– Orson Rega (via libraryland)
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“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write,...”
– Graham Greene (via recycled-words)
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“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via girlwithoutwings)
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“Reading usually precedes writing and the impulse to write is almost always fired...”
– Susan Sontag (via ilovereadingandwriting)
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I find such beautiful things hidden in books.
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“There are books so alive that you’re always afraid that while you weren’t...”
– Marina Tsvetaeva (via creationoftheday)
That awkward moment where someone you don't know...
unicorn-fish:
that moment?
my whole life?
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“The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The...”
– Pablo Neruda (via lovingourlife)
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“The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via lifeofliterature)
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“Good children’s literature appeals not only to the child in the adult, but to...”
– Anonymous (via creationoftheday)
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I suffer terribly from bibliomania. I have...
teachingliteracy:
shatteringbluebulb
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“Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don’t be like the book snobs who won’t do...”
– Low Men In Yellow Coats, Hearts In Atlantis (via colinwilkes)
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“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman (via itookadeepbreath)
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“What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the...”
– Pablo Picasso (via libraryland)
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“Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but...”
– Lives of the Poets by Margaret Atwood (via isaidtothestar)
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“They told us not to wish in the first place, not to aspire, not to try; to be...”
– J. Michael Straczynski (via nathanielstuart)
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“I read a lot, but not a lot of different books: I like to read my favourites...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (Vintage, London: 2003) 37. (via encrebleunoir)
I LOVE READING
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3. The point of books is to have way too many but...
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“I have a friend who’s an artist, and he sometimes takes a view which I don’t...”
– Richard P. Feynman, What Do you Care What Other People Think? Further Adventures of a Curious Character (Penguin Books, London: 2007). (via encrebleunoir)
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“The primary duty of literature is to tell us the truth about ourselves by...”
– Stephen King (via greeneyelashwishes)
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“Grow up; become an adult. But don’t ever become a grown-up.”
– J.M Barrie. (via quote-book)
For anyone still unaware...
andlearntofly:
There’s a massacre going on in Libya right now. They’re tricking, then shooting protesters and raping women. Pray for them.
Today a 6.3 earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand. Lives have been lost and the damage is extensive.
More than 50 killings in Ciudad Juarez - Mexico, over 3 days
Egypt and Tunisia have both set up field hospitals on their Libyan borders
Please...
