February 2012
104 posts
“I am a librarian. I discovered ‘me’ in the library. I went to find ‘me’ in the...”
– Ray Bradbury (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
“I get worried for young girls; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and...”
– Amy Poehler
“At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I...”
– Iranian film director ASGHAR FARHADI, on accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, A Separation (via inothernews)
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to...”
– Charles Bukowski (via modernmethadone)
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“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Diary
“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do...”
– Neil Gaiman (via julie911)
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see...”
– John Green (via aubreysplazas)
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“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
– Jane Yolen
“I find that by putting things in writing I can understand them and see them a...”
– Dr. Hunter S. Thompson (via myimaginarybrooklyn)
“If I had my way we’d sleep every night all wrapped around each other like...”
– William S. Burroughs (via philphys)
“I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from...”
– Galileo Galilei
“Humor and sadness co-exist everywhere and always.”
– John Green, 1/4/12 Entertainment Weekly interview (via maggierwv)
“A short story is by definition an odder, more eccentric creature than a novel: a...”
– Stacy Schiff reviews Nathan Englander’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank for The New York Times. (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you...”
– Amy Tan, The Hundred Secret Senses
“My feelings are the result of prejudices and convictions like everybody else’s....”
– Toni Morrison, The Art of Fiction No. 134 (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
“We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via bookmania)
“Stay hungry, stay foolish.”
– Steve Jobs
“Beauty is nothing, beauty won’t stay. You don’t know how lucky you are to be...”
– Charles Bukowski (via soulstereo)
“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast....”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via bookmania)
“Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without...”
– George Sand
“No one ever stopped when they were winning.”
– Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (via bookmania)
“Where does a thought go when it’s forgotten?”
– Sigmund Freud (via psych-quotes)
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“My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.”
– Andre Breton, What is Surrealism?: Selected Writings
“I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via bookmania)
“I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel (via fleurishes)
“Strength is the capacity to break a Hershey bar into four pieces with your bare...”
– Judith Viorst, Love & Guilt & The Meaning of Life, Etc.
“If you really want to hurt your parents, and you don’t have the nerve to be gay,...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (via emotionalcreativity)
“Writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being...”
– Charles Bukowski (via writeinspace)
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“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”
– Thomas Merton, No Man is an Island
“We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had thought...”
– Jack Keoruac, On the Road: The Original Scroll (via honeyforthehomeless)
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem...”
– Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche (via philphys)
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“Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the...”
– Samuel Lover, Rory O’More
“It occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams...”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via xenium)
“Democracies suffer not only from their slow reaction time at moments of crisis,...”
– Dominique Moïsi, on the difficulties for democracies to respond to crises. (via europeanvoice)
“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary...”
– Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad
“What we think, we become.”
– The Buddha (via ageofreason)
“That’s right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that’s kind of perverted or maybe it’s...”
– Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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“California state government was designed mainly to maximize the likelihood that...”
– Michael Lewis, Boomerang