August 2011
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“[When Vonnegut tells his wife he’s going out to buy an envelope] Oh, she says,...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via loveyourchaos)
Happy Birthday to me.
Two decades old… What have I done with 20 years?
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“Time’s glory is to calm contending kings,
To unmask falsehood and bring...”
– Shakespeare, “The Rape of Lucrece”.
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“Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost...”
– Shakespeare, “Othello”.
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“What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?”
– Shakespeare, “Much Ado About Nothing”.
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“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit!”
– Shakespeare
July 2011
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“If the novel is dead, I’m a necrophiliac.”
– Tiffany Madison (via teachingliteracy)
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My favorite Harry Potter books Vs. My favorite...
So it seems that everyone has the Potter craze right now, and even I have to admit I have caught a small amount of the excitement. While they are far from my favorite series of books you can’t deny that they are really fun to read and far more deserving of their fame then other book series…
Anyways I’m going to outline my favorite of the books and my favorite of the movies. The...
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“Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired produces such an...”
– A.E. Newton (via 500daysofkissingmypillow)
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“She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an...”
– Kurt Vonnegut “Cat’s Cradle”
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“Good art however “immoral” is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can...”
– Ezra Pound
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“Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.”
– Ezra Pound
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“A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.”
– Ezra Pound
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“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you.”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via loveyourchaos)
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June 2011
38 posts
Hello new followers.
Hope you enjoy the blog! I mostly do author spotlights and reblogs. Thanks for following!
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“Action is character.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
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“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”
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I wrote a short story.
If you’re so inclined:
Exodus
Elaine had no choice but to flee, so that’s exactly what she did Gripped by fear she took off with a jolt down the deserted, trash-filled, streets which she had at one time called home. Her lungs began to inhale more violently the further she got from the familiar as if they were sucking in the unknown. Still, Elaine dared not...
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I cannot help but comment on this... When I find someone who knows such authors as Lewis, Hemingway, or Emily Bronte... It makes me really happy people like this still exist. :)
I cannot help but comment on this... When I find someone who knows such authors as Lewis, Hemingway, or Emily Bronte... It makes me really happy people like this still exist. :)
“We should live in this time now and have every minute of it.”
– Ernest Hemingway
“You can either buy clothes or buy pictures,” she said. “It’s...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really...”
– Ernest Hemingway
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I'm back!
From vacation with little-to-no internet connection. It was marvelous. Frequent posting will start back up tomorrow.
“City life is millions of people being lonesome together.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via lifeofliterature)
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“Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you.”
– Walt Whitman 