May 2013
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Person: hey have you read any good books lately?
Me: are you ready for this conversation
May 24th
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“‘This isn’t the store where you’ll find the book you were looking for,’ Fowler...”
– An Oddly Modern Antiquarian Bookshop (via irisblasi)
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Happy Birthday Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, sorry that...
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There's a book for that
powells: artemiswinter: powells: marigold1900: How to Talk Yourself Out of … plastic surgery: The Island of Dr. Moreau by H. G. Wells tattoos: In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka haircuts: Sweeney Todd (multiple authors) Oooh, let’s make this a thing… prep school: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger hooking up with exes: The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald holding a grudge:...
May 21st
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“The writer’s job is to turn the unspeakable into words — not just into any...”
– Anne Lamott (via ilivetowriteandinspire)
May 20th
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“It’s not our job to toughen our children up to face a cruel and heartless world....”
– L. R. Knost via thatkindofwoman (via petitpoulailler)
May 19th
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“Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose...”
– Camilo José Cela (via theparisreview)
May 19th
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“It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it.”
– Charles Bukowski, Pulp (via audrotas)
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“What if it turns out that the romance books I’ve been enjoying are considered...”
– Romance Novels Are Stressing Me Out! (via bookriot)
May 17th
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“Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no...”
– William Strunk Jr. (via writingquotes)
May 17th
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“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like scent. And it...”
– Daphne du Maurier (via writersrelief)
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“DiCaprio and Mulligan, meanwhile, don’t seem like star-crossed lovers so much as...”
–  People Magazine’s review on ‘The Great Gatsby’ (via brucewaynes) READ A BOOK (via lexcanroar) Say what you will about the movie, this is hilarious. (via laughterkey)
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“Oscar Wilde said that if you know what you want to be, then you inevitably...”
– Stephen Fry (via existenti-al)
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“One face looks out from all his canvases, One selfsame figure sits or walks or...”
– In the Artist’s Studio by Christina Gorgina Rossetti Find More At Project Guttenberg (via publicdomainthing)
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“I was in my third summer of misery, and in the bookstore again, and this time I...”
– The Books That Freed Me (via bookriot)
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