December 2009
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“There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people...”
– Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) (via ontheborderland)(via libraryland)
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“That secret was a hole in the middle of me that every happy thing fell into.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close) (via kissmytoes)
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“Books are notes from the field, bound and domesticated, life brought into narrow...”
– Joshua Ferris, writing against culling your book collection. (via gregbrown) (via thebronzemedal)(via jeanhannah) (via buyhercandy) (via unicornology) (via letusreadandletusdance) (via bugseatbooks)
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“I’ve learned that to overcome life’s obstacles you need faith, hope and, above...”
– Ghost World (via yoshiliciouz) (via clairefisher)
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“imagining something is better than remembering something”
– excerpt from j. irving’s the world according to garp (via whatsupstairs) (via libraryland)
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“No two books ever follow quite the same road to reach us. Like people, some stay...”
– Julia Keller (via jingc)(via libraryland) (via insearchofthemoon)
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“I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the...”
– Saul Bellow (via crashinglybeautiful) (via smellslikesunshine)
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“I am a lie who always speaks the truth.”
– Jean Cocteau (via fatalistichues) (via shaanon) (via iwantmybearsuit)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-12-27) →
The Smiths (58)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (21)
Florence + The Machine (18)
The Charlottes (18)
The Isles (17)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.”
– Katherine Mansfield (via thoughtsdetained) (via giveme-a-reason) (via heartwarming) (via bugseatbooks)
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“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”
– Voltaire (via marsymars) (via libraryland)
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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public...”
– Cyril Connolly (via ilovereadingandwriting) (via libraryland)
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“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via rememo) (via sophiejade) (via thousandflowerettes) (via libraryland) (via greatexpectations) (via bugseatbooks)
“I’ve woken up once and I’ve woken up twice
And I’ve woken up millions and...”
– Regina Spektor (via: yipjump) (via puslebit) (via casinegro) (via myhearteatsbeats)
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“I invented adventures for myself and made up a life, so as at least to live in...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky - Notes from the Underground (via ireadintothings) (via dostoyevsky)
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“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.”
– Jean-Jacques Rousseau (via nihilnoetia)
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“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via appleonastick) (via jayemhay) (via heartwarming) (via bugseatbooks)
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“Madness, as you know, is like gravity. All it takes is a little push.”
– The Joker (via nihilnoetia)
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“I never thought about things at all, everything changed, the distance that...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Closeby Jonathan Safran Foer (via smellslikesunshine)
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“May the wind always be on your back and the sun upon your face and may the winds...”
– Johnny Depp (via kari-shma) (via bookncoffee)
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“One knew nothing. One lived and walked about on the earth or rode through the...”
– Narcissus and Goldmund byHermann Hesse (via smellslikesunshine)
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“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
– Aldous Huxley (via nihilnoetia)