January 2012
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WE NOW NEED 200,000 SIGNATURES. ACTA GOES INTO... →
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“Twenty years ago no one could have imagined the effects the Internet would have:...”
– J.G. Ballard (via bookshavepores)
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“We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for...”
– Albert Einstein (via larmoyante)
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59 Things You Didn't Know About Virginia Woolf →
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A few of my favorites:
After getting married, Woolf thought she should learn some domestic skills, so she enrolled in a school of cookery. Shortly after, she accidentally baked her wedding ring in a suet pudding.
Woolf listened to Beethoven’s late quartets while writing The Waves.
Woolf once discovered a diary she had written during one particular sane and lucid period in...
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“The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.”
– Patricia A. McKillip, The Bell at Sealey Head (via bookaddict24-7)
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“In fact the pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Ottoline Morrell, 24 January 1922 (via katherine-mansfield)
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“In my mind I am eloquent; I can climb intricate scaffolds of words to reach the...”
– Warm Bodies by Isaac Marion (via suzywire)
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“You can close your eyes to the things you do not want to see, but you cannot...”
– Johnny Depp (via blackbruise)
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books are there for me in ways people never have...
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My favorite part of the day is being alone with my...
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“The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.”
– Mark Twain (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
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“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always...”
– Jaggi Vasudev (via soul-candy)