January 2011
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...”
– C.S. Lewis (via mandabythesea)
“Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and...”
– Joseph Conrad, from “A Familiar Preface” to A Personal Record (via liquidnight)
It brings me great hope that when people are being...
“I like to see people reunited, maybe that’s a silly thing, but what can I say, I...”
– Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close (via casimms)
“Everyone has the right to believe and accept what he or she wants, but reality...”
– Gary Ryan Blair (via kari-shma)
“I started to read as a writer, and the reading fed my writing as the writing...”
– Paula Munier (Falling in Love Again)
“And taken by light in her arms at long and dear last
I may without fail
Suffer...”
– Dylan Thomas, Love in the Asylum (via the-final-sentence)
“What’s more delightful than an evening beside the fire with a nice bright lamp...”
– Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (via rentedhouse)
“Read everything that you can in order to gain knowledge. You should read at...”
– MARCUS GARVEY
(via brandibates)
“We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it then no politician or...”
– Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama (via ellobofilipino)
If you think reading is boring,
saintmorrissey:
You are reading the wrong books. Fact.
“I need words and print… I need print like an addict. I could live without it,...”
– Margaret Drabble (via prettybooks)
“Who will save me from existence? It isn’t death that I want, or life: it’s the...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via antevorta)
“It is a bad thing to have love and nowhere to put it.”
– Kate DiCamillo, The Magician’s Elephant (via ariesincognito)
“These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.”
– Gilbert Highet (via bookoasis)
“Every one rushes elsewhere and into the future, because no one wants to face...”
– Michel de Montaigne (via codylanguages)
The Story Problem: 10 Thoughts on Academia’s Novel... →
amywhipple:
Cathy Day is amazing. This is important. Go, read, discuss.
“Chances are, if your government is telling you not to read something, you should...”
– Al Jazeera on Wikileaks, Hip-Hop, Global Honesty and Cultural Decline (via ellobofilipino)
