January 2010
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“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery...”
– Norman Cousins
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“We shouldn’t teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.”
– B. F. Skinner
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“The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would...”
– Martin Amis (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“Why do we trust one another so little? I know there must be a reason, but still...”
– Anne Frank
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“And when you look directly at an insane man all you see is a reflection of your...”
– Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert M. Pirsig
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“When I was a teenager I wanted to write the Great American novel. But then I...”
– “Everybody Loves Raymond”
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“We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards...”
– Voltaire (via carloswritesstuff2) (via chula) (via theresearchsociety)
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“A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down.”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay
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All of J.D. Salinger's Short Stories from the New... →
bookshift:
sashawantsmore:
dbreunig:
In a lovely tribute, The New Yorker has made all 13 of J.D. Salinger’s short stories available online.
And now, I’m off to add all of them to my Instapaper account.
Go on.
Unfortunately, access seems to be limited to those with a digital subscription. As in “not me.”
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“Mr. Joyce has desophisticated language. And it is worth while remarking that no...”
– Samuel Beckett on James Joyce in his essay, “Dante … Bruno . Vico . . Joyce” (via graemebooks)
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“Anybody who has survived his childhood has enough information about life to last...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via psychotherapy)
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“If you don’t get what you want, it’s a sign either that you did not seriously...”
– Rudyard Kipling (via librarianism)
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“One winter, we’ll take a train, a little rose-colored car
Upholstered blue....”
– Arthur Rimbaud, “Winter Dream” (via aubade)
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“Business, you know, may bring money, but friendship hardly ever does.”
– Jane Austen, Emma
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“Jane Austen’s books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one...”
– Mark Twain, Following the Equator
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“The past is never where you think you left it.”
~Katherine Anne Porter”
– (via iwannotowidigdo)
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“This is what I believe: That I am I. That my soul is a dark forest. That my...”
– D.H. Lawrence (Whiskey River, your amazing) (via crashinglybeautiful)
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“Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into...”
– John LeCarre