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Aug 01

“ Fantasy is one of the soul’s brighter porcelains.

— Pat Conroy, Beach Music

awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:

Tom Wolfe and Kurt Vonnegut

(submitted by Robin)

Jul 30

“ How easy life is when it’s easy, and how hard when it’s hard.

— Philip Roth, The Professor of Desire

Jul 19

panem-et-gallia:

The Little Mermaid Saves the Prince

illustration by Edmund Dulac

(Source: musemuette)

Jul 18

oldtimeycats:

Undated, photographer not specified. Source: LIFE Photo Archive, hosted by Google.

(via oldtimeycats)

Jul 11

(via yukidoll)

“ I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.

— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Jul 05

thelibrarianontherun:

General Dwight Eisenhower’s unpublished (unused) speech in case the D-Day invasion had failed. (via Doomsday Speeches: If D-Day and the Moon Landing Had Failed)

Jun 21

“ Even when I’m dead, I’ll swim through the Earth,
like a mermaid of the soil, just to be next to your bones.

— Jeffrey McDaniel

Jun 19

“ Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.

— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

Jun 15

thelifeguardlibrarian:

To catalog: super-angsty urban YA lit. Check and check.

Jun 10

Smell of new books

Jun 09

(via chasethelondonlights)

“ Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

— Mark Twain

“ Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.

— Terry Pratchett, Reaper Man