04-14-2013, 12:55 PM | #2071 |
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"You know those wild librarians, always throwing bombs and corrupting the local mothers." from Dr. Neruda's Cure for Evil by Rafael Yglesias.
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04-14-2013, 01:09 PM | #2072 |
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“You're bound to get idears if you go thinkin' about stuff”
“A large drop of sun lingered on the horizon and then dripped over and was gone, and the sky was brilliant over the spot where it had gone, and a torn cloud, like a bloody rag, hung over the spot of its going. And dusk crept over the sky from the eastern horizon, and darkness crept over the land from the east.” ― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath Grapes of Wrath was published on this day in 1939. It's probably my favorite book of all time and Steinbeck certainly one of the best writers of all time though he wrote The Grapes of Wrath very fast and did not think much of it at them time.... Last edited by kennyc; 04-14-2013 at 01:32 PM. |
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04-17-2013, 04:09 PM | #2074 |
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"Your head is a living forest full of song birds," e.e. cummings
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04-17-2013, 04:26 PM | #2075 |
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“Creation never ceased on the sixth evening, it occurs to the young man. Creation unfolds around us, despite us and through us at the speed of days and nights. And we call it love.”
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“There are just some kind of men who - who’re busy worrying about the next world they’ve never learned to live in this one.”
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04-24-2013, 07:07 PM | #2077 |
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"Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business."
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04-25-2013, 08:45 PM | #2078 |
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"Dream the world. Not this pallid shadow of reality. Dream the world the way it truly is." ~ From Sandman: Dream Country by Neil Gaiman
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04-28-2013, 08:16 AM | #2079 |
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"I arrived in the first grade, literate, with a curious cultural assimilation of American history, romance, the Rover Boys, Rapunzel, and The Mobile Press. Early signs of genius? Far from it. Reading was an accomplishment I shared with several local contemporaries. Why this endemic precocity? Because in my hometown, a remote village in the early 1930s, youngsters had little to do but read. A movie? Not often — movies weren't for small children. A park for games? Not a hope. We're talking unpaved streets here, and the Depression. [...] Now, 75 years later in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, iPods, and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. Instant information is not for me. I prefer to search library stacks because when I work to learn something, I remember it."
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04-29-2013, 01:22 PM | #2080 |
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"A trivial subject will cheapen the work of the greatest artist." Louis Auchincloss - Reading Henry James
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