November 2010
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Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in...
– Virginia Woolf - Excerpt from Street Haunting, A London Adventure, 1927
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cameronwoodward asked: Not a question:
Just read your post on HP and my only thought of critique is that at the end of the article you apologized for writing it.
I think that you're a brilliant writer and your analysis is fantastic.
Keep the ranting coming, and keep writing, its the only way!
Just read your post on HP and my only thought of critique is that at the end of the article you apologized for writing it.
I think that you're a brilliant writer and your analysis is fantastic.
Keep the ranting coming, and keep writing, its the only way!
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Mindless rambling about witches and wizards.
I’m studying children’s literature and hope to one day work in the industry. Harry Potter is my favorite children’s series, as it is for thousands of readers worldwide. But I don’t care that the series is so massively popular. These are the books I grew up with. These are the books I read under the covers by flashlight long after I was supposed to be sleeping. The stories...
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I will reflect upon these early days, these days when it seemed God was down a...
– Donald Miller
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Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us...
– Ira Glass (via brandoooom)
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Have you been inside every
room in your house today?
How about every closet?...
– Dallas Clayton
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Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of...
– Hermann Hesse
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"Death Watch" by Aimee Bender: An Excerpt
The Greek woman sobs when she hears that her wonderful melancholy lover will be dying soon. They do ritual after ritual. Their sex is like castles; it has moats and turrets. If only, thinks the suicidal man, if only I had known for longer how short it all would be.
Everybody says this. They say it for us, the nondying, to remember our daily lives. But we can’t fully get it until...
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I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I...
– Arthur Rimbaud
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When the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating.
– Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
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Coriolanus by William Shakespeare
Third Servingman: Where dwell’st thou?
Coriolanus: Under the canopy.
Third Servingman: Where’s that?
Coriolanus: I’ th’ city of kites and crows.
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From the Casey Affleck/Joaquin Phoenix film I’m Still Here
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"So What's New" by Fatima Dike
I’ve been to the funerals of lots of my friends. Funerals always make me cry, but those are the worst. You stand with your friends and cry for your friends. I’ve stood by the graves of kids killed by the police, and by our own people too and I’ve thought, “Hee, will I ever leave this place?” and “Will I be next?” Sometimes I’ve just wanted to lie...