October 2010
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“I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all...”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via musingsfromgamblersrock)
September 2010
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“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of...”
– John Keats (via reveillerlimagination)
August 2010
25 posts
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“without pain, without sacrifice, we would have nothing.”
– fight club
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“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public...”
– Cyril Connolly (via libraryland)
“fiction was invented the day jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was...”
– Gabriel García Márquez (via libraryland)
“You slept better in a sleeping train in a shed in a station with a torch and a...”
– (via thestonefox) (via piazza)
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“give me odorous at sunrise a garden of beautiful flowers where i can walk...”
– walt whitman
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“ring the bells that still can ring. / forget your perfect offering. / there is a...”
– Leonard Cohen (via ohgreatintentions) (via capel)
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July 2010
43 posts
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“You looked happy. Happy with a secret.”
– Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (via colourmegreenwich) (via quote-book) (via skeleton-jar)
“On foot
I wandered through the solar systems,
before I found the first thread...”
– Edith Irene Södergran, “On Foot I Wandered Through the Solar Systems” (via aubade) (via libraryland)
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“lipstick is not just for looking glamorous; it can be used to signal for help on...”
– nancy drew
“don’t ask what the world needs. ask what makes you come alive, & go do it....”
– howard thurman
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faulkner's voice revealed →
faulkner speaks! fifty years after he spent two years as writer in residence at the university of virginia, the school has posted online recordings of the two addresses, the dozen readings, and the 1,400 questions that students, faculty, and interested townspeople of charlottesville, va., posed to the author. for faulkner fans, these 28 hours of talking and reading are christmas in july.
