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)
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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)
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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)
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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.
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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)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
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