January 2012
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If you don’t live a life in service of a greater good, you’ve gotta at least die...
– The Fault In Our Stars by John Green
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December 2011
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November 2011
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Hazel: “I’m pretty un-extraordinary.”
Augustus: “I reject that out of hand.
– The Fault in Our Stars, John Green (via bourbonbons)
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We are just statistics, born to consume resources.
Nos numerus sumus et fruges...
– Horace in Epistles bk. 1, no. 2, l. 27
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I wish you’d drop me a line if you ever can manage it.
– Salinger
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I must tell you that I should really like to think there’s something wrong with...
– The Cocktail Party by T.S. Eliot (via lostinthesounds)
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People! They are so pesky, what with their moods and traits and differences and...
– A Clean Person on Hairpin
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October 2011
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September 2011
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Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be...
– Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut (via lostinthesounds)
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Being alive: No one’s gotten it right yet.
– A Lady on Hairpin
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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to...
– George Bernard Shaw
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August 2011
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What! you perhaps think, “to waste the labour of men is not to kill...
– The Crown of Wild Olive by John Ruskin
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In denying the natural place reserved for longing and error in the human lot,...
– The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton
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July 2011
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One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform. Accepted...
– The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
June 2011
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Putting his state of mind on paper to her was not easy from any standpoint.
– Black Silk by Judith Ivory
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May 2011
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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you...
– An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
bookshelfporn:
What are the best reading related charities or social initiatives that Bookshelf Porn should support?
Booksforsoldiers.com which sends books and care packages to our deployed military
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You’re always haunted by the idea you’re wasting your life.
– Chuck Palahniuk (via irishbloodenglishheart)
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The regular early morning yell of horror was the sound of Arthur Dent waking up...
– Life, the Universe, and Everything by Douglas Adams
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April 2011
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He had a dim idea that perhaps if one delayed long enough, things were taken out...
– “The Heart of the Matter” by Graham Greene
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Just observe what traits she has of more than mortal beauty,
Her blazing eyes,...
– Aeneid (5.837-840) by Virgil
March 2011
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She’d always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than...
– Sarah Beth Durst, Out of the Wild (via librarianista)
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