May 2012
55 posts
Everyone should always have two books with him, one to read and one to write in.
– Robert Louis Stevenson (via amandaonwriting)
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The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to...
– Vintage Books & Anchor Books
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When you sell a man a book you don’t sell just twelve ounces of paper and ink...
– Christopher Morley (via myquotelibrary)
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go...
– Vintage Books & Anchor Books
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived,...
– Vintage Books & Anchor Books
Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses...
– Hellen Keller (via cinderellainrubbershoes)
For yesterday I hold no apologies, For tomorrow I hold no answers, today is a...
– Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey (via myquotelibrary)
Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever;...
– John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (via prettybooks)
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The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a...
– The History Boys, Alan Bennett (via express-media)
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Review: Arranged by Catherine McKenzie
You shop online for clothes, shoes, books, music, etc., but would you shop online for a husband? In today’s social media focused world, you’re just as likely to meet someone on an online dating site, Facebook or Twitter as you are at a club, bar or grocery store.. But would you pay someone to find you a guaranteed spouse? That’s exactly what Anne Blythe does in Catherine...
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Get your read on...no, really. See how fast you...
Source: Staples eReader Department
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She was fascinated with words. To her, words were things of beauty, each like a...
– Dean Koontz (via amandaonwriting)
There are scores of people waiting for someone just like us to come along;...
– Leo Buscaglia (via myquotelibrary)
You have to learn to get up from the table when LOVE is no longer being served.
– Nina Simone (via brianbitch)
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It’s Official…Scandal has been renewed! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!
Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things...
– Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (via prettybooks)
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To read well, that is, to read true books in a true spirit, is a noble exercise,...
– Henry David Thoreau, Walden (via how-novelistic)
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one...
– - Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice (via mslizzybennet)
MISS BINGLEY IS THE PITS. THE ABSOLUTE HAIRY PITS.
I am a reader, a flashlight-under-the-covers, carries-a-book-everywhere-I-go...
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Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
– Arthur Helps (via mellifluousbookshelf)
We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been...
– Galway Kinnell (via myquotelibrary)