January 2012
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I must say a word about fear. It is life’s only true opponent. Only fear can...
– Yann Martel (via adessive)
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Have you ever confused a dream with life? Or stolen something when you have the...
– Suzanna - Girl, Interupted (via killmoped)
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Jo’s ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea,...
– Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
This time, I identify so much with Jo (don’t we all?) that it’s enough to carry me through when I get tired of the rest of them being so meek and mild.
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Do you fall in love often? Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a...
– Jeanette Winterson (via somniate)
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6-word short stories
janelotus:
For sale: baby shoes, never worn. -Ernest Hemingway
Machine. Unexpectedly, I’d invented a time -Alan Moore
Lie detector eyeglasses perfected: Civilization collapses. -Richard Powers
The baby’s blood type? Human, mostly. -Orson Scott Card
Longed for him. Got him. Shit. -Margaret Atwood
Epitaph: Foolish humans, never escaped Earth. -Vernor Vinge
so much to be said with a single...
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This guy’s walking down the street when he falls in a hole. The walls are so...
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Ben Howard - The Wolves →
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Luck is like the Tour de France. You wait, and it flashes past you. You have to...
– Amelie from Montmartre
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I refuse to believe that Hendrix had the last possessed hand, that Joplin had...
– Patti Smith (via ubenice)
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What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with...
– Rob Gordon, High Fidelity (via landroid)
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You know that place between sleeping and awake, that place where you can still...
– J.M. Barrie (via ventriloquistic)
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In its silence, a book is a challenge: it can’t lull you with surging music or...
– Ursula K. Le Guin (via atomos
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A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you...
– E.B. White (via slekes)