May 2011
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“Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music....”
– Margaret Atwood (via bookmania)
May 30th
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“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees,...”
– Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via misswallflower)
May 30th
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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against...”
– William Faulkner (via myquotelibrary)
May 30th
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May 29th
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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)
May 29th
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May 29th
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“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of...”
– Henry David Thoreau  (via readingisforlovers)
May 29th
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“Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.”
– Cassandra Clare (Clockwork Angel)
May 29th
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May 28th
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May 28th
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“They’re out there.”
– One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey Submitted by dazebras (via novelfirstsentences)
May 28th
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“The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser - in case...”
– Robert Brault (via excessivebookshelf)
May 28th
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“The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a...”
– Charles Simic (via bookoasis)
May 28th
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“The power of imagination makes us infinite.”
– John Muir (via bookshavepores)
May 27th
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“Atticus had used every tool available to free men to save Tom Robinson, but in...”
– Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird (via fivefootshelf)
May 27th
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“It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.”
– Leo Tolstoy (The Kreutzer Sonata)
May 27th
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“Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its...”
– Oscar Wilde (via thesocialread)
May 27th
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“Without literature, life is hell.”
– Charles Bukowski (via darkfolklore)
May 27th
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May 26th
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“I was not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca (via fyeahwanderlust)
May 26th
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May 26th
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“I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.”
– Charles Dickens, Bleak House (via thebookishdark)
May 26th
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May 26th
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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)
May 26th
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“There is something delicious about writing the first words of a story. You never...”
– Beatrix Potter (via bookoasis)
May 26th
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May 26th
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Thanks to books, I was able to travel the world,...
May 26th
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May 26th
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“Invent your world. Surround yourself with people, color, sounds, and work that...”
– Sark (via maluna)
May 26th
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May 26th
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May 21st
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