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“Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where...”
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snakecharmer: there’s a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I’m too clever, I only let...

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“Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.”
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“In one way or another, we’re all anchored to the book. A...”
—  Roberto Bolaño (via felled)

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brownrice: Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2009 - The...

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“Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I...”
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“In Under the Dome, Stephen King’s 1,088-page saga of a small...”
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“To see a world in a grain of sand and a heaven in a wild...”
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dostoyevsky: Literary magazine The Believer asked forensic...

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“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and...”
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Marcel Proust - À La Recherche du Temps...

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“Libraries serve the information needs of all of the people...”
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“Her library filled her bookshelves and then overflowed into...”
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“I woke up once in the middle of the night, and Buckminster’s...”
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A page from Austen’s Sandition manuscript.

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“Jane Austen died at the age of 41, leaving her seventh...”
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someotherpeople: Book Cover: The Communist Manifesto; a...

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“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is...”
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While Milne bestowed Pooh his lovable, bumbling nature, it...

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angelablack: I know I am going to catch heck from...

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walkwhilereading: The Best Book of the Decade.

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“Fairy tales, are more than true. Not because they tell us...”
— G.K. Chesterton (via...

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dostoyevsky: First Edition of the Brothers Karamazov

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“It’s sort of like a book club, but there’s only one book.”
— Sarah Vowell, on church (via)...

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bmichael: I am a reader of serious literature.

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benhughes: Welcome to JMU during finals week at the library. We know how to get down.  Library...

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“Admittedly, real life does not contain many librarians who...”
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“I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way...”
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“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and...”
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librarianglasses: I hate mandatory online discussion, but it’s the only chance in school that I...

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“It had become a chimney poking from a vertical universe of...”
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joopy: Candida Höfer (2003) Rijksmuseum Amsterdam II

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flowmo: This guy was like this when I got to the library...

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Italo Calvino - Il cavaliere inesistente

incipit: Under the red walls of Paris had deployed the army of France. Charlemagne had to pass in...

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“Fair warning, I thought. I should have told you from the...”
— Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby...

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printedkisses: thedailywhat: Flowchart of the Day:...

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drakecaperton: Over to You, by Roald Dahl

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electricollection: About to begin .

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mdt: A Journey Round My Skull: Atomic Anadolu Pop - 25...

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“It was a splendid morning too. Like the pulse of a perfect...”
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway...

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wingsandfins: A sort-of true story from the Weekly World...

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“The Siege of Pleasure is in part a careful, convincing...”
— Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic...

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id0be1ieve: Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes...

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“At one magical instant in your early childhood, the page of...”
— Alberto Manguel (via pithia)

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callmecayce: I just read this book in about 2.5 hours. It...

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Bret Easton Ellis - Less than Zero

incipit: People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear...

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jiyuujin: Nikki Giovanni.

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“It may be unfair, but what happens in a few days, sometimes...”
— The Kite Runner by Khaled...

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“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we...”
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“The writer is a species of God—they create our world.”
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itsjanna: Currently reading The Year of the...

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You as the Dewey Decimal System

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mudwerks: The Pictorial Arts: 1515 Rhinocerus Albrecht...

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Looking Back

Journalist: Do you believe in a life after this one?
Leonard Cohen: [laughing] I hardly believe in this one.

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audiogasm: robot-heart: What Possessed Me: Tatsuro...

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predatorywaspobserver: William S. Burroughs

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“The dilemma is: to figure out how to keep real life from...”
— Glory Szabo // quote-book (via...

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selfdoubt: It’s the birthday of novelist Willa Cather,...

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selfdoubt: Canadian children’s writer L.M. Montgomery,...

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“You remember 10% in what you read, 20% in what you hear, 30%...”
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“The shell must break before the bird can fly.”
— Alfred Tennyson (via...

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“I know my head isn’t screwed on straight. I want to leave,...”
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“”
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growthchart: “It is such a humble letter from a great...

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“Flaubert was convinced that each idea can have but one form,...”
— Paul Valery, Memoirs of a Poem...

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librarious: this is exactly what i feel like right now.

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sagatrope: Bret Easton Ellis

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“He [JG Ballard] was put in the same category as William S....”
— Hilarious! Minnesota...

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confessionsofacreativewriter: Here’s where Jonathan Safran...

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travellinglight: (via ontheborderland) Emily Brontë’s...

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Poem by Hannah Baker, from the novel...

bringsarahthehorizon: If my love were an ocean, there would be no more land. If my love were a...

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“The novel’s spirit is the spirit of complexity. Every novel...”
— Milan Kundera, The Art of the...

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sparrowsarahnade: Library study room.

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stewf: Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review...

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100 Notable Books of 2009 - The New York...

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lyndseydyan:  Alli started calling my purse a library today…

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“If you search the world for happiness, you may find it in...”
— Robert Brault (via...

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theroomaboveher: (Great article from earlier this year -...

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“Fate is a quantity very much like TV: an unstoppable...”
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karenh: “Penguin designs should be seen beyond the...

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The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier &...

byronic: solidair: By the end of the decade, it had almost become a cliché for authors to wed...

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literarypiano: i12bent: A young Joan Didion (b. Dec. 5,...

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United States v. One Book Called Ulysses

i12bent: Dec. 6, 1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that the James Joyce’s novel...

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byronic: John Irving in 1980. From the New York Magazine...

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savingpaper: The Professorial Literary Swag Collection...

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ontheborderland: In the late 18th century, Carl Schildbach...

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tartanspartan: Fishing with Guns — Hunter S. Thompson, c....

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“You’re only a rebel from the waist down.”
— Winston Smith, in George...

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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s grave

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“I have not lived but only dreamed about living.”
— Nathaniel Hawthorne (via...

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haguenite: In a world where George was never born: -...

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swillmerchant: fuckyeahexistentialism: violetta

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“Here we are Trapped in the amber of the moment There is no...”
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52books: #47: Lush Life by Richard Price Every single...

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“We don’t need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do’s and...”
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“I think that at the annual ALA convention they have Rocky...”
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(via welcometowonderland) Gary Young, No Other Life

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losemybuttons: The library of the Glasgow School of Art....

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ontheborderland: Page from Manuscript in Norwegian, Latin...

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19384403: The pages are still blank, but there is a...

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are2: Bibliophilia

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“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in...”
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booklover: Finished reading “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”...

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selfdoubt: It’s the birthday of writer Samuel Butler,...

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“Of course it’s alright for librarians to smell of drink....”
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inevitablefragments: Jonathan Littell’s novel The Kindly...

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“Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is...”
—  Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina...

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stuffedkittie: Polonius: What do you read, my Lord?...

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thelafamewhores: Oscar Wilde. this man, is my literary...

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Wall Street Journal-Hollywood's Favorite...

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Al Roker wrote a murder mystery book...

hidesawell: Look at this. Does he like, fantasize about killing literary effigies of his...

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a short story by Katherine Mansfield

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danieliz: Way too excited for Howl.

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aubade: Indispensable Books, Part V - Émile Zola, La Bête...

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Robert McLiam Wilson - Eureka Street

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“When you are a high school girl, there is nothing more...”
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“Life resembles a novel more than novels resemble life.”
— George Sand (via skimthrough)

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The Birch bark letter given the document number 292 is the...

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jenne: Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey Price:...

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predatorywaspobserver: Walt Whitman (1869)

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amuffinformypuffin: Lovely Novels

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nickdrake: Sandro Botticelli, The Birth of Venus, 1480,...

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“WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.”
— 1984, George Orwell (via...

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i12bent: The Polish sailor and spinner of misty, haloed...

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“Cool summer nights. Windows open. Lamps burning. Fruit in...”
— raymond carver, “the best time...

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uncertaintimes: Nancy Fouts Further

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“There are those hearts that never mend again once they are...”
— Kaite CaMillo, The Tale of...

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NY Times: For Poe, This Has Been the Year to...

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slantedvision: When I get lost in shelves and shelves of...

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giodion: @chuicide’s post made me realize.. I really like...

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ghoulnextdoor: This manuscript - one of the British...

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cardiomegaly: awesome, awesome book!

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danhacker: The Road by Dustin Nguyen

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iamdanw: British Library Additional Storage Building -...

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karenh: No Country for Old Typewriters - A Well-Used One...

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crashinglybeautiful: travellinglight: [via inajumble] “The Tyger” by William Blake, read by...

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imnotthatkindofgirl: The White Queen by Philippa Gregory -...

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ghoulnextdoor: The Town and Country Mouse Edward J....

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peaceofmind: Because I’m stupid I usually judge books by...

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pensierispettinati: Qui si può sfogliare “The Book of...

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“Some ideas have the force of a bomb exploding.”
— Milan Kundera (via...

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joopy: Andreas Gursky (1999) Library Chromogenic print,...

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“We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others...”
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fallingribbons: Lady Clare by Elizabeth Siddal, 1857. ...

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counterforce: sleazette: suicideblonde: Jessie Willcox...

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“That is what is wrong with cold people. Not that they have...”
— Lorrie Moore, Self-Help:...

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“As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in...”
— Erma Bombeck

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whisperinglion: Library at the Melk Abbey.

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summoning-ifrit: Basil II depicted in an 11th century...

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“I am now upon a painful chapter. No doubt the parrot once...”
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“The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of...”
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A U.S. Army cadet reads a book entitled “Kill Bin...

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overtoned: I started reading this because it was the first...

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karenh: a lovely collection of vintage children’s book...

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jockohomo: Poets Ranked By Beard Weight - “Poets Ranked by...

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butterfliesinmyhair: Art and Literature I wonder why...

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miafarizza: “Subtle he needs must be, who could seduce...

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prettyworld: Charles Dickens was in a train crash and went...

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“I read,” I say. “I study and read. I bet I’ve read...”
— David Foster Wallace (Infinite...

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andthenyouwokeup: Wild thing, I think I love you….

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“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can...”
— Haruki Murakami (Kafka On the...

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noxvox: The library of Alexandria on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

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unburyingthelead: From the German National Library, a...

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beautefragile: Illustration for Peter Pan in Kensington...

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tattarrattat: A manuscript of Fantastic Mr Fox at the...

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mustanggina: Oliver Twist First Edition

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“I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most...”
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comicallyvintage: Lots Of Girls Wear Glasses.

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“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That...”
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“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know....”
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mickeyalice: Book covers

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“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have...”
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of...

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“…Kerouac typed on onionskin paper, then taped the pages...”
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djdkt88: (Nov. 19) — In March of 1861, a new president had...

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printedandbound: Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 manuscript...

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dreamsofelectricsheep: Look what the cat finally dragged...

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“The past isn’t quaint while you’re in it. Only at a safe...”
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“Always read something that will make you look good if you...”
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“All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest...”
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“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of...”
— Simone Weil (via shonpapri)

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andreirobu: Human Knowledge Book Cover.

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“I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public...”
— ~Barbara Kingsolver (via...

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yoursecretary: poisoned-apple: A Book of Fairy Tales...

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