January 2012
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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Jan 30th
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“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
– Siddhārtha Gautama (via proustitute)
Jan 30th
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“I’d rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person....”
– Matt Cohen (via precipice)
Jan 29th
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“We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via girlwithoutwings)
Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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Jan 29th
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“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the...”
– Ernest Hemingway  (via thatkindofwoman)
Jan 29th
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“Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them...”
– Emma Watson  (via musingsinfemininity)
Jan 29th
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“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for...”
– Sherman Alexie  (via booklust)
Jan 29th
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“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxicabs, of being out, out, far...”
– Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway (via liquidnight)
Jan 29th
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Jan 19th
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“Anyone who has lost something they thought was theirs forever finally comes to...”
– Paulo Coelho (via myquotelibrary)
Jan 19th
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“No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass (via excessivebookshelf)
Jan 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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I know I’m reading a really good book, when I feel...
teachingliteracy: zahhhhhra
Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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“It is just the literature that we read for “amusement” or “purely for pleasure”...”
– T.S. Eliot, Essays Ancient and Modern (via excessivebookshelf)
Jan 17th
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“The books were the closest thing he had to furniture, and he lived in them the...”
– Laura Hillenbrand (Seabiscuit: An American Legend)
Jan 17th
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“I can’t explain what I mean. And even if I could, I’m not sure I’d feel like it.”
–   J.D. Salinger (via cosuffering)
Jan 17th
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“You have to die a few times before you can really live.”
– Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last (via seeklight)
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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“I learned a long time ago not to judge people by what they look like, sound...”
– Sherrilyn Kenyon (Infinity)
Jan 16th
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“When Dostoevsky met Dickens in 1862 — a meeting that is hard to imagine —...”
– (via fwriction)
Jan 16th
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“Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more...”
– Pseudonymous Bosch (via vastpastiche)
Jan 16th
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“People need not fear the unknown if they are capable of achieving what they need...”
– Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist (via somethingtocallmine)
Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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“Be a child again. Flirt. Giggle. Dip your cookies in your milk. Take a nap. Say...”
– Max Lucado (When God Whispers Your Name)
Jan 15th
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“The best thing for being sad,” replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, “is...”
–  T.H. White (via misswallflower)
Jan 15th
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“So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via misswallflower)
Jan 15th
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“The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance...”
– Ralph W. Sockman (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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“Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always...”
– Albert Schweitzer  (via thelittlesea)
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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thebatjan replied to your post: overponder replied to your post: Posting this on… AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! THE-SOCIAL-INEPTRESS IS FOLLOWING YOU! HELLO, P! Anyway — haha, awesome. My brother goes there. You have joined the dark side. (Lol, jk.) CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN! :P Oooh, the dark side. Hehe. Thank you!
Jan 15th
How do authors pronounce their names? NEVER BE... →
litglutton: For the love of all that is holy, someone needs to teach me how to pronounce Pär Lagerkvist.
Jan 12th
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“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of...”
– John Keats, in a letter to his sister Fanny Keats, August 28, 1819 (source : plastification)
Jan 12th
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Jan 11th
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“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
– James Dean (via myquotelibrary)
Jan 11th
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“Nothing in this world that’s worth having comes easy.”
– Scrubs (via laceofpearls)
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you....”
– Winnie the Pooh (Submitted by my-candy-jar)
Jan 11th
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overponder replied to your post: Posting this on two blogs because it’s so exciting. congrats! which one? Thank you! I’m going to UQ in Brisbane. :D the-social-ineptress replied to your post: Posting this on two blogs because it’s so exciting. Congratulations! Thank you! :D :D thebatjan replied to your post: Posting this on two blogs because it’s so exciting. WOOOO. I...
Jan 11th
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“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his...”
– The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky love this book. love this quote. (via themarianax)
Jan 10th
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“The person who has not pleasure in a good novel must be intolerably stupid.”
– Jane Austen (via Swanfeather Songs)
Jan 10th
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