January 2011
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“We are all born mad. Some remain so.”
– Samuel Beckett
December 2010
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“It’s not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join...”
– Stephen Fry (via nocternity)
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“I will rise
After a thousand years
lipping
flowers
...”
– e. e. cummings, from “I will rise” (via aubade)
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– ~ Neil Gaiman (via gatekeeper)
“Books push their writer forward. The writer has to have the accumulation of what...”
– Jeanette Winterson; Art Objects: Essays on Ecstasy and Effrontery (via wordpainting)
That moment when you're reading a book and you...
snapesgrudge:
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“God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.”
– J.M. Barrie
“It was a VIRAL, EPIC FAIL that had a WOW FACTOR and a BACKSTORY on THE AMERICAN...”
– Our attempt to use as many banished words as we could from Lake Superior State’s 2010 list. We couldn’t get to them all because refudiate and mama grizzlies is just plain hard to work into any sentence. (via abcworldnews)
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“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most...”
– Musician Keith Richards (via librarianista)
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“God gave us memory that we might have roses in December.”
– J.M. Barrie
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“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
The Stinky Cheese Man and Other Fairly Stupid...
greeneyedghost:
This was one of my most-checked-out books from the library when I was little. I kind of want to go find a copy and re-read it …
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The Liquidators, a short story about Chernobyl by... →
“When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most...”
– Musician Keith Richards (via librarianista)
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“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself...”
– C.S. Lewis
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“I became a hero only because I survived.”
– Angela Carter, The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
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“The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral...”
– William James
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“The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see,...”
– Arthur Miller (via shacknoir)
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“It’s not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it’s mankind.”
– Eugène Ionesco (via nihilnoetia)
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“Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where...”
– Laurence J. Peter
