March 2012
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My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn’t just...
– Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint (via libraryland)
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A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a...
– Alan Bennett (via oreofarms)
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I’m an observer. I read about life. I research life. I find a corner in a room...
– Christine Feehan (via creatingaquietmind)
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There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via lunaoki)
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Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by...
– Oscar Wilde, The Critic as Artist (via seabois)
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Books have to be heavy because the whole world’s inside them.
– Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (via 4mbivalent)
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I have been bent and broken, but — I hope — into a better shape.
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via wrists)
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Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of...
– Donalyn Miller, The Book Whisperer (via excessivebookshelf)
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If the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. If it were merely...
– E. B. White