October 2011
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“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...”
– C. S. Lewis (via ermarty)
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List of Book Blogs
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Last night I mad a list of book blogs on tumblr which you can see here.
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“Buying books is immensely comforting. Maybe I won’t read them immediately, but...”
– vagabond (via loveyourchaos)
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Who are the odds on favorites for this year's... →
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After winning Germany’s major award the Goethe prize earlier this year, Syrian poet Adonis has emerged as the frontrunner to be crowned Nobel literature laureate next month.
Ladbrokes has made the 81-year-old, described as “the most important Arab poet of our time” by the Goethe jury, its 4/1 favourite to win this year’s Nobel prize for literature, ahead of another octogenarian...
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“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain...”
– Kate Chopin; The Awakening, and Selected Stories
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Killing Charlemagne: Nobel Prize acceptance speech... →
killingcharlemagne:
Ladies and gentlemen,
I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work - a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before. So this…
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“Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by...”
– Salman Rushdie; The Satanic Verses
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“A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without...”
– Edward P. Morgan
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“TV. If kids are entertained by two letters, imagine the fun they’ll have...”
– Author Unknown
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How Ebook Buyers Discover Books →
marynelson8:
Chart shows the results of a survey of ebook readers on how they discover the books they buy.
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“There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a...”
– G. K. Chesterton
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“The most dangerous item in the world is bound between two covers.”
– TBV
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“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between...”
– George Robert Gissing
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“Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing.”
– Ken Kesey; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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“The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new...”
– George Gissing (via libraryland)
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“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald; The Great Gatsby
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“A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured...”
– John Milton, from Areopagitica (via aubade)
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toutpourlamour:
“I don’t want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep,
downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day.” ― Pablo Neruda
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11 Literary Holidays That Every Book Lover Should... →
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“And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the...”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden
(via inspire2lead)
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“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop...”
– Ayn Rand 