August 2011
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“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the...”
– “Animal Dreams” by Barbara Kingsolver (via julie911)
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“I’m just not the type of person who accumulates friends or enjoys crowds. I’m...”
– The Distant Hours by Kate Morton (via thebookishdark)
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“She forgot all about them in her enjoyment of the fine music, which she felt...”
– Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl (via distantheartbeats)
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“The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be...”
– George Bernard Shaw (via ellobofilipino)
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“Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with...”
– Saul Bellow, Ravelstein (via llibre)
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“But it is incredible, don’t you feel, how mysterious and isolated we each of us...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Ottoline Morrell, July 24th, 1921 (via katherine-mansfield)
“Art never comes from happiness.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke (via ronniebruce)
“How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via realfakescientist)
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“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own...”
– J. D. Salinger (via ellemac23)
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“We don’t read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we’re living lives,...”
– Orson Scott Card (via anastasiabooks)
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“There seems to be a kind of order in the universe…in the movement of the stars...”
– Katherine Anne Porter (via phamv)
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“Today, we see very talented, intelligent designers who use their skills to...”
– French Visionary Starck’s Advice to Designers: Create Fewer Useless Products | Wired.com (via nathanielswhite)
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“The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page,...”
– Edith Wharton (via teachingliteracy)
“The last few days, what one notices more than anything is the blue. Blue sky,...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a journal entry dated 16 October 1921 [prompted by danwisethebrave’s word suggestion: “wings”] (via proustitute)
“In short, our gentleman became so caught up in reading that he spent his nights...”
– Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote)
