December 2011
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The majority of my favourite people are fictional...
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“I require books as I require air.”
– Sholem Asch (via reading-as-breathing)
Dec 31st
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everyone: it's just a book
you: YOU KNOW NOTHING
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“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via misswallflower)
Dec 31st
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The worst thing you can do to bookworms is to...
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“I had barely glanced at the book in the pedlar’s house save to ascertain it was...”
– Kate Morton, The House at Riverton (via bookoasis)
Dec 30th
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“Books are both our luxuries and our daily bread.”
– Henry Stevens, as cited in The Literary World (via bookoasis)
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“Evil is a growing thing It has its own gravity and never answers to its name...”
– Fanny Howe, from “One Night in Balthazar” (via proustitute)
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“Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for...”
– Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume (via goldenreveling)
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“When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”
– Rumi (via mirroir)
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I read because my soul demands it.
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“In a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And...”
– Ernst Fischer (via nathanielstuart)
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“It’s possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and...”
– Raymond Carver (via wordpainting)
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“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can...”
– Alfred A. Montapert  (via paradise-garage)
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I count my tears in books.
teachingliteracy: dearliller
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“I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind’s sole...”
– Bill Hicks (via disconnectedreality)
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“Surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one...”
– Plato, Socrates in Apology (via distantheartbeats)
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“Books, the children of the brain.”
– Jonathan Swift (via libraryland)
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“How well I know that rapture that comes sometimes when one is alone. I think...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Ottoline Morrell, 27 December 1921 (via katherine-mansfield)
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“I think a lot of people who think they’re good people are living a really evil...”
– Louis C.K., Louie (via fattlestarbaldactica)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Frédéric Chopin (23) God Is An Astronaut (20) Angelo Badalamenti (15) Sylvain Chomet (13) Sea Oleena (11) Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Dec 28th
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