May 2013
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Person: hey have you read any good books lately?
Me: are you ready for this conversation
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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
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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:...
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The writer’s job is to turn the unspeakable into words — not just into any...
– Anne Lamott (via ilivetowriteandinspire)
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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)
Ideas? My head is full of them, one after the other, but they serve no purpose...
– Camilo José Cela (via theparisreview)
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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)
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Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no...
– William Strunk Jr. (via writingquotes)
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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)
DiCaprio and Mulligan, meanwhile, don’t seem like star-crossed lovers so much as...
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People Magazine’s review on ‘The Great Gatsby’
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READ A BOOK
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Say what you will about the movie, this is hilarious.
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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
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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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