“I live in two worlds, one is a world of books,” Rory of Gilmore Girls said. “I’ve been a resident of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, hunted the white whale aboard the Pequod, fought alongside Napoleon, sailed a raft with Huck and Jim, committed absurdities with Ignatius J. Reilly, rode a sad train with Anna Karenina and strolled down Swann’s Way. It’s a rewarding world.”
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24 March 2014
05 February 2014
Quote of the Day
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.
08 December 2013
04 December 2013
01 December 2013
28 November 2013
Quote of the Day
Tyger! Tyger! burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
November 28, 1757: Romantic poet William Blake made his living as an artist and engraver. His poetry was barely read in his lifetime, but it has gone on to influence songwriters like Bob Dylan and Jim Morrison. Philip Pullman's fantasy series, His Dark Materials, is based on a work by Blake.
22 November 2013
Quote of the Day
I was a late bloomer. But anyone who blooms at all, ever, is very lucky.
Sharon Olds
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Sharon Olds
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13 November 2013
Quote of the Day
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
-Kazuo Ishiguro
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-Kazuo Ishiguro
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12 November 2013
11 November 2013
Quote of the Day
And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.
31 October 2013
Quote of the Day
By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
-William Shakespeare
Happy Halloween! Stage lore has it that Shakespeare's witchy tragedy, Macbeth, is cursed. Thespians refuse to utter the title inside a theater, calling it instead, "the Scottish play." What's your favorite spooky story?
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Something wicked this way comes.
-William Shakespeare
Happy Halloween! Stage lore has it that Shakespeare's witchy tragedy, Macbeth, is cursed. Thespians refuse to utter the title inside a theater, calling it instead, "the Scottish play." What's your favorite spooky story?
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29 October 2013
Quote
To me the purpose of art is to produce something alive...but with a separate, and of course one hopes, with an everlasting life of its own.
Henry Green
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Henry Green
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11 August 2013
07 August 2013
Quote of the Day
I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.
-Emily Brontë
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-Emily Brontë
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28 January 2013
Quote of the Day
I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet.
20 January 2013
Quote of the Day
It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.
R.A. Salvatore
R.A. Salvatore
15 January 2013
14 January 2013
Quote of the Day
If you can't go back to your mother's womb, you'd better learn to be a good fighter.
Anchee Min
Anchee Min
09 January 2013
08 January 2013
Quote of the Day
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
The author of The Art of Worldly Wisdom was born on this day in 1601.
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