December 2012
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Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story.
– Daphne du Maurier
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November 2012
September 2012
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Maybe the best thing would be to forget being right or wrong about people and...
– Philip Roth
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
– V. S. Naipaul
August 2012
The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are: 1) Silence; 2) Books...
– Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards! (via librarianista)
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
– V. S. Naipaul
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Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains.
– Pat Conroy, Beach Music
July 2012
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How easy life is when it’s easy, and how hard when it’s hard.
– Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire
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I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only...
– L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
June 2012
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Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of...
– Jeffrey McDaniel
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Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he...
– Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
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Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid...
– Mark Twain
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Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
– Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man
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I remember awakening one morning and finding everything smeared with the color...
– Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us...
– —Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (Random House, 1984)(via electrichoney)
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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her,...
coloradoheart:
-Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.
– Grace Paley
rhea137:
“Naga is one of a handful of rare words surviving the loss of the first universal language. In Buddhism, Wisdom has always been tied, symbolically, to the figure of the Serpent. In the Western Tradition it can be found as used by the Christ in the Gospel of Saint Matthew (10:16), “Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”