June 2012
71 posts
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“Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer...”
– Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
Jun 16th
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“When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”
– William Shakespeare, King Lear
Jun 15th
16 notes
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“I have stolen ideas from every book I have ever read.”
– Philip Pullman, The Amber Spyglass
Jun 15th
32 notes
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“But I have sometimes thought that a woman’s nature is like a great house...”
– Edith Wharton, The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton
Jun 15th
9 notes
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“All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to...”
– Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies
Jun 14th
17 notes
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“Some things don’t last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a...”
– Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
Jun 14th
37 notes
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“Don’t be mysterious; there isn’t the time.”
– E.M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread
Jun 13th
12 notes
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“Just as music is noise that makes sense, a painting is colour that makes sense,...”
– Yann Martel, Beatrice and Virgil
Jun 13th
36 notes
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“You couldn’t make yourself stop feeling a certain way, no matter what the...”
– Elizabeth Strout, Olive Kitteridge
Jun 12th
28 notes
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“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Jun 12th
143 notes
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“A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer...”
– Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried
Jun 11th
19 notes
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“Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They’re always sticking...”
– J.D. Salinger, Nine Stories
Jun 11th
72 notes
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“Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any...”
– Yann Martel, Life of Pi
Jun 10th
34 notes
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“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I...”
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums
Jun 10th
29 notes
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“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
– John Donne, Elegies
Jun 10th
12 notes
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“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose...”
– Toni Morrison, Jazz
Jun 9th
49 notes
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“All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.”
– Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
Jun 9th
11 notes
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“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
Jun 8th
55 notes
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“What would happen if you did just shut a door and stop speaking? Hour after hour...”
– Ali Smith, There but for the
Jun 8th
17 notes
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“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Jun 8th
49 notes