August 2012
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So we shall let the reader answer this question for himself: who is the happier...
– Hunter S. Thompson (via excessivebookshelf)
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That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the...
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via tobekamz)
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You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
– Frank McCourt (Angela’s Ashes)
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You either like me or you don’t. It took me twenty-something years to learn how...
– Daniel Franzese (via shesinacoma)
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Currently Reading
THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern
The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night. But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway: a duel...
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MADAME BOVARY by Gustave Flaubert
For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert invented a paradoxically original and wholly modern style. His heroine, Emma Bovary, a bored provincial housewife, abandons her husband to pursue the libertine Rodolphe in a desperate love affair. A succès de scandale in its day, Madame Bovary remains a powerful and arousing novel.
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A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be...
– Paulo Coelho (via pavorst)
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What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of...
– Jane Austen, Letter (1796-09-18)
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Writing is something you do alone. It’s a profession for introverts who want to...
– John Green
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I’d always loved books for their reassuring heft, for their promise of new...
– Monica Wood (via wrinklesintime)
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Too much information can be very dangerous because it can lead to a situation of...
– The Great Abbreviators | James Shelley (via slantback)
What do you read when everything is available to read? Ask your librarian.
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