December 2011
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“I can be glib and truthful all at once.”
– Richard Russo
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lookatmybooks:
Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
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“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely...”
– Oscar Wilde
“You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via coffeeblossoms)
The 20 Most Iconic Book Covers Ever →
wellandlighthouse:
“One of the things we love best about the book as art object and experience is the way well-designed covers complement and enhance your reading, and the way they figure in your mind when you remember a book.”
“I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating.”
– John-Paul Sartre; Nausea (via demonolatry)
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“Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he...”
– Rebecca West
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“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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serialcomma:
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“What a wonderful life I’ve had! I only wish I’d realized it sooner.”
– Colette
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million...”
– The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath. (via -thespeedofpain)
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
– Thomas Merton
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“I can understand those who are jealous of the past of an artist. It becomes a...”
– Anaïs Nin (via ctattianahh)
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“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be...”
– Rumi
“A book, too, can be a star, ‘explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via -daydream-believer-)
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“Consider the dystopia: a world where polite society has vanished, where you have...”
– The spectacular Patrick Ness reviewing Ship Breaker for The Guardian. (via thebookishdark)
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“Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer...”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together...”
– Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via modernhepburn)
Books as a Canvas →
thefoxwood:
Pxyleyes.com posted an interview with multimedia painter Mike Stilkey.
I am not one of those people that thinks that every book is sacred. This is one of those touchy subjects, though. I do sort of wonder to what degree the mind instinctively rebels against the phrase “book burning,” and whether or not that rebellion gets interpreted into the idea that every book is magic and...
“It is man’s intelligence that makes him so often behave more stupidly than the...”
– Aldous Huxley (via nathanielstuart)
