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wordsarefornerds: “Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?”- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

wordsarefornerds:


“Do you realize that all great literature is all about what a bummer it is to be a human being? Isn’t it such a relief to have somebody say that?”

- Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

wordsarefornerds

I just want to hang out at this place for a few hours.

I just want to hang out at this place for a few hours.

mellifluousbookshelf

Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.
Kate Braverman

Machina Analytica: “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to...

machina-analytica:

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope…

psych-facts: More here

psych-facts:

More here

psych-facts

mssugar: Love this

mssugar:

Love this

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die.
Patrick Rothfuss
franzenfreude: picadorbookroom: Last week, Jonathan Franzen discussed his reading habits over at the New York Times. We were happy to hear that Mario Vargas Llosa’s War of the End of the World was one of the best books he has read in the last year. Illustration by Jillian Tamaki

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picadorbookroom:

Last week, Jonathan Franzen discussed his reading habits over at the New York Times. We were happy to hear that Mario Vargas Llosa’s War of the End of the World was one of the best books he has read in the last year.

Illustration by Jillian Tamaki

picadorbookroom

All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
From, “Peek at the Staff Picks Shelves From Indie Bookstores All Over America.” Cool.

From, “Peek at the Staff Picks Shelves From Indie Bookstores All Over America.”

Cool.

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When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child’s hands, you are bringing that child news of the infinitely varied nature of life. You are an awakener.
Paula Fox

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takeaflightwithfairies:

“His hands were weak and shaking from carrying far too many books from the bookshop. It was the best feeling.” 
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1

I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now of course the adult would be all like, ‘I’m busy, I got a job, I got stuff to do.’ WHATEVER! READ! I mean, you’re watching CSI: Miami. Why would you be watching CSI: Miami, when you could be READING CSI: Miami, the novelization?
John Green

garrott:

This is water. 

In 2005, author David Foster Wallace was asked to give the commencement address to the 2005 graduating class of Kenyon College. However, the resulting speech didn’t become widely known until 3 years later, after his tragic death. It is, without a doubt, some of the best life advice we’ve ever come across, and perhaps the most simple and elegant explanation of the real value of education.


We made this video, built around an abridged version of the original audio recording, with the hopes that the core message of the speech could reach a wider audience who might not have otherwise been interested. However, we encourage everyone to seek out the full speech (because, in this case, the book is definitely better than the movie).

(h/t machaffer.)

[Nice illustrative film adaptation of David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech titled This is Water.]