Posts tagged quote

It is both possible, and even necessary, to simultaneously enjoy a piece of media while also being critical of its more pernicious aspects.
Anita Sarkeesian (via asgardian-feminist)
When at last I came upon the right book the feeling was violent: it blew open a hole in me that made life more dangerous because I couldn’t control what came through it.

Nicole Krauss, from Great House (via wwnorton)

The Norton Tumblr is 3 years old today! This quote from Nicole Krauss’s novel Great House was our very first post on August 30, 2010. And here we are 2,216 posts later. We just want to say thanks to the Tumblr community for making it so fun to share our love of books and reading with you all.

(via wwnorton)

I only know that I feel tired, antiquated; I feel as though I had been living a long, long time.
Ivan Turgenev, Fathers and Sons (via inacarolinahaze)
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality… In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like a night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.
C.S. Lewis (via wewontneedlegs)
Words create sentences; sentences create paragraphs; sometimes paragraphs quicken and begin to breathe.
Stephen King (via jkyacovelle)
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Walden by Henry David Thoreau (via literarylines)