July 2012
THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH IN 10 MINUTES →
amywhipple:
Everything about this is the best thing ever.
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“I have never seen anything like it: two little discs of glass suspended in front...”
– Waiting for the Barbarians by J. M. Coetzee
Monday First Sentences | Every Monday, we offer the opening sentences of a Penguin Classic to start the week.
(via classicpenguin)
“Saying ‘I notice you’re a nerd’ is like saying, ‘Hey, I notice that you’d rather...”
– John Green (via nuper)
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“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in...”
– George Bernard Shaw; Man and Superman
“Because I was alone, however, even the mundane seemed charged with meaning. The...”
– Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via distantheartbeats)
“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
– Ray Bradbury (via pavorst)
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“The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into...”
– William H. Gass; A Temple of Texts
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“Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly — they’ll go through...”
– Aldous Huxley; Brave New World
Anonymous asked: Have you ever read any of the Pendragon series by DJ MacHale?
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“Ben wished the world was organized by the Dewey decimal system. That way...”
– Brian Selznick; Wonderstruck
Anonymous asked: My generation doesn't read anything of substance. What's your take on fanfiction? Is reading something better than reading nothing at all?
“I’m going to write. That’s what I see beyond the present moment, in the great...”
– Marguerite Duras, The Lover (translated by Barbara Bray)
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We here at Simon and Schuster always consider a... →
simonbooks:
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“There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.”
– Raymond Chandler, Long Goodbye
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“The rain falls upon the just
And also on the unjust fellas
But mostly it falls...”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Stonemason
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Keep Bookstores Alive! Support your local book...
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“I am not a lonely person.
I don’t want to be embraced, cajoled,
told jokes to,...”
– Charles Bukowski (via instrictconfidence)
