May 2013
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From the author of The Fault in Our Stars
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.” ― John Green
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“I don’t even know what I’m writing, I have no idea, I don’t know anything, and...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, from Poor Folk, translated by Robert Dessaix
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April 2013
22 posts
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From the mouth of a Master ...
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, It’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
Dr. Seuss
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“And the sun on my shoulders brings,
because of its perfect warmth,
the feeling...”
– Robert Gray, from “Byron Bay: Winter” (via the-final-sentence)
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Food for Thought?
“A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.”
Victor Hugo
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Ain't That The Way?
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
— Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
“Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour.” - Robert Frost
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"Me Talk Pretty One Day"
“My father always struck me as the sort of man who, under the right circumstances, might have invented the microwave oven or the transistor radio.”
- David Sedaris
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From "A Year By the Sea: Thoughts of An Unfinished...
“A moment of truth always brings with it an intensity that is delicious. Right now my cheeks have turned a deep pink as I return to a solid state of gratitude.”
- Joan Anderson
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From Margaret Atwood's "Helen of Troy Does Counter...
“Like breath or balloon, I’m rising,
I hover six inches in the air
in my blazing swan-egg of light.
You think I’m a goddess?
Try me.
This is a torch song.
Touch me and you’ll burn.”
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March 2013
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Words from the wise ...
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline
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Do You Agree?
“A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.”
-William Styron
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December 2012
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