February 2011
“Only the day dawns to which we are awake.”
– Henry David Thoreau, as quoted in Being Blog: A Necessary and Vital Moment for Jon Kabat-Zinn and Being Mindful in All of Our Senses (Thank you, sharanam)
January 2011
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“When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on...”
– Michael LeBoeuf
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“Whenever a grammar book comes my way, I instantly turn to the last page to enjoy...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (via d0novan)
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“There comes a pause, for human strength will not endure to dance without...”
– Lewis Carroll
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“Added to their loveliness was a new mysterious suffering, perfectly silent,...”
– The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides (via thechocolatebrigade)
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“How many slams in an old screen door?
Depends how loud you shut it.
How many...”
– Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic (via paintmegreeen-)
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Abebooks' Harry Potter Poetry Page →
littlemissdorkette:
faineemae:
Dear Twilight, I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over my amusement park. Sincerely, Harry Potter
A&P by John Updike →
axon-axoff:
One of my favorite short stories.
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“I really think that everyone should have watercolors, magnetic poetry, and a...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower
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“Learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes...”
– Eudora Welty (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can’t Live It. I can’t even explain. I know...”
– — Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait in Letters (via bunnymitford) (via awritersruminations, bunnymitford)
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lineone:
“When he woke in the woods in the dark and the cold of the night he’d reach out to touch the child sleeping beside him. Nights dark beyond darkness and the days more gray each one than what had gone before. Like the onset of some cold glaucoma dimming away the world.”
The Road - Cormac McCarthy.
Such a beautiful, heartbreakingly bleak book.
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Stephen King: 10 Best Books I Read in 2010 →
wordpainting:
Top 10 favorite books Stephen King says he read in 2010 (but not that the book was published in that year). Nice list!
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“Be obscure clearly.”
– E.B. White
“It’s harder than you might think to produce good writing about bad writing.”
– Let us now praise Dwight Garner, New York Times daily book critic. - By Timothy Noah - Slate Magazine (via housingworksbookstore)
