July 2011
“And make no mistake about it: we can be called sluts for nearly any reason at...”
– Jaclyn Friedman at Boston’s Slut Walk (via somechattybroad)
“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second...”
– Orhan Pamuk, Nobel Prize in Literature acceptance speech, Dec 2006 (via atomos)
“The house was quiet and the world was calm.
The reader became the book; and...”
– Wallace Stevens, from “The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm” (via bookoasis)
“Fiction is about everything human and we are made out of dust, and if you scorn...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via wordpainting)
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“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via serialstranger)
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pattiocleavis:
Moth: I gave you my life.
Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.
Hazrat Inayat Khan
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“Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.”
– Mark Slouka (via atomos)
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“Every day I set less store on intellect. Every day I see more clearly that if...”
– Marcel Proust (via atomos)
“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it feels about...”
– Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education, Interview in “On Libraries and Learning,” School Library Journal, February 1967 (via bookoasis)
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to...”
– Oscar Wilde (via bookmania) 