December 2011
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November 2011
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May 2011
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quitecheeky:
suckink:
In Greek, ‘nostalgia’ literally means the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This device isn’t a space ship, it’s a time machine. It goes backwards and forwards. It takes us to a place where we ache to go again. It’s not called the wheel. It’s called the carousel. It let’s us travel the way a child travels—around and...
April 2011
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Harry Potter & The Half-Dub Remix
Terabyte Frenzy - Harry Potter & The Half-Dub Remix (Dubstep) by emilyliisa
March 2011
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“For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are the ultimate solace, even...”
– Anne Lamott (via lalanii)
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February 2011
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rumi by ~undeziner on deviantART
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“Arrange whatever pieces come your way.”
– Virginia Woolf
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“A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.”
– Virginia Woolf
“When I’m near the end of a book, I need to sleep in the same room with it.”
– Joan Didion (via notwritenow)
January 2011
22 posts
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http://www.bellasbookshelves.com/?page_id=3971 →
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Dada Poetry Generator →
Poetry which denies all sense and reason. The word “dada” originates in French meaning ‘hobbyhorse’, a word selected at random from the dictionary.
“The mind I love must have wild places, a tangled orchard where dark damsons drop...”
– Katherine Mansfield (via amiquote)
“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how...”
– William Faulkner (via contrive)
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“For that reason you can’t write with music playing, and anyone who says he...”
– Phillip Pullman
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“There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing...”
– Maya Angelou
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“The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”
– Isabel Allende
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Watch
“Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.”
– Angela’s Ashes, Frank McCourt (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk...”
– Water for Elephants (via inthespine)
“Anyone can speak Troll, all you have to do is point and grunt.”
– J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (via libraryland)
Happy Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe!
litmusings:
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 19, 1809, the second child of actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr.
http://www.poestories.com/ - An Exploration of Short Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
http://www.poemuseum.org/index.php - Edgar Allan Poe Museum
http://www.eapoe.org/ - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore
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“In your light I learn how to love.
In your beauty, how to make poems.
You...”
– Rumi
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Sea Fever.
“Sea-Fever” I must down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky, And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, And the wheel’s kick and the wind’s song and the white sail’s shaking, And a grey mist on the sea’s face, and a grey dawn breaking. I must down to the seas again, for the call of the running tide Is a wild call and a clear call that...