June 2012
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“People can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”
– Saul Bellow (via thingsandschemes)
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“I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of...”
– Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife (via comewhat-comemay)
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“Every writer is a thief, though some of us are more clever than others at...”
– Joseph Epstein (via herwrittings)
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“The learned are those who have studied in books; the thinkers, geniuses,...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
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“No man with a glimmer of romance in his soul can read about the things of the...”
– Help Carry America’s Flag to Every Port: Seamanship, Navigation and Marine Engineering by the U.S. Bureau of Education, 1920
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harpaea:
do you ever think about how weird reading is
our eyes are able to scan these different symbols and construct the scenarios and concepts they describe in our mind
and these concepts have the power to twist our emotions and make us cry and laugh and wow reading is weird
booksdirect asked: Thanks for following back. Love your blog.
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