August 2011
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Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are being developed
– Michael Pritchard
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Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music...
– Henry Miller (via fragilethoughts-)
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No one loses anyone, because no one owns anyone. That is the true experience of...
– Paulo Coelho (via lewiatan)
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Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with...
– Saul Bellow, Ravelstein (via llibre)
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A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives...
– George R. R. Martin (via morethansky)
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of...
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via monsterjenn)
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The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the...
– Ian McEwan, Atonement (via bookoasis)
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The written word, obviously, is very inward, and when we’re reading, we’re...
– Joyce Carol Oates, from a PBS interview (Tavis Smiley Show), 2005. (via bookoasis)
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A great poem makes us experience a moment, and a great short story makes us...
– Katherine Mansfield (via confusionis)
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Book lovers will understand me, and they will know too, that part of the...
– Jan Morris (via prettybooks)
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It may be escapist, but if I have a choice between watching the news or reading...
– Christina Westover (via teachingliteracy)
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