May 2011
317 posts
Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music....
– Margaret Atwood (via bookmania)
I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees,...
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via misswallflower)
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Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against...
– William Faulkner (via myquotelibrary)
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All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please...
– Conan O’Brien (via quote-book)
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of...
– Henry David Thoreau (via readingisforlovers)
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Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
– Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel)
They’re out there.
– One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
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The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case...
– Robert Brault (via excessivebookshelf)
The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a...
– Charles Simic (via bookoasis)
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
– John Muir (via bookshavepores)
Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in...
– Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird (via fivefootshelf)
It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
– Leo Tolstoy (The Kreutzer Sonata)
Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its...
– Oscar Wilde (via thesocialread)
Without literature, life is hell.
– Charles Bukowski (via darkfolklore)
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I was not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca (via fyeahwanderlust)
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I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.
– Charles Dickens, Bleak House (via thebookishdark)
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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or...
– David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (via lifeofliterature)
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There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never...
– Beatrix Potter (via bookoasis)
Thanks to books, I was able to travel the world,...
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Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that...
– Sark (via maluna)
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