October 2011
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I wandered through the stacks, running my hands along the spines of the books on...
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via bookoasis)
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Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.
– Richard de Bury, Philobiblon
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How to Write an Important Novel
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“But can you?”
“Can I what?”
“Write an important novel.”
“Of course I can. All you have to do is cut out the plot and shove in plenty of misery.”
- P.G. Wodehouse, Ice in the Bedroom
(via wwnorton)
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God bless ladies with costly, tasteful clothes and touching, dirty fingernails...
– Seymour Glass, Hapworth 16, 1924 by J.D. Salinger (via mwfogleman)
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I've decided.
helptheholmesless:
My dream house has to have a library, that has
and on the other side is Narnia. Or maybe my bedroom. Not sure yet.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be a man intensely alive....
– Ezra Pound (via thewritersreads)
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This week I just want to sink into my books and...
teachingliteracy:
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A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all the wealth, and all things...
– Richard de Bury, 14th century Benedictine monk
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A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance,...
– Lemony Snicket (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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