The literary intelligentsia.

"When I made the decision to move overseas, I also made the decision to get rid of my entire library..."

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 13:09:08 -0700

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When I made the decision to move overseas, I also made the decision to get rid of my entire library — 1,500 books. Most were sold to a used bookstore, some donated to charity, others handed off to friends. Down to several hundred near the moving date, the gentleman who came over to pick up the shelves I was selling asked what I was doing with the giant stacks now lined up around my bare walls. ‘Do you want them’, I asked. He immediately picked up a stack and started loading up his car. My friend Charles and I sat gloomily as the man made trip after trip up and down my stairs. I skipped refilling my glass with vodka and just started drinking out of the bottle. ‘It’s the stories they contain, not the books themselves, right’, I asked. ‘Sure, kid. Can you top me off.’

I don’t miss the stories in Isak Dinesen’s Seven Gothic Tales. I can hop over to East of Eden bookstore and probably find a copy of the same book. But it wouldn’t have the same smell, it wouldn’t be a perfect 1960s Modern Library hardback edition, and it wouldn’t have my 2007 Dublin bus schedule jammed between the pages as a bookmark. I don’t miss the book, I miss *the book*. I hope it’s being read and loved right now, and my bus schedule replaced with a subway pass or a receipt for coffee and an almond croissant.

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- Jessa Crispin in The Smart Set (via thebronzemedal) (via thoughtsdetained)

"A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth..."

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:31:58 -0700

“A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.”

- Roald Dahl’s The Twits

webcat: dreameveryday: jasmine-marie:booktumbling: le petit...

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 22:33:07 -0700

webcat:

dreameveryday:

jasmine-marie:booktumbling:

le petit prince! j’aime!

seymourglass: (via eleasha)

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:42:39 -0700

seymourglass:

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"The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a..."

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:31:14 -0700

“The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life away to a function that doesn’t interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative.”

- Charles Bukowski (via booksarebetterthanboys) (via emilyposts)

"A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s..."

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:18:14 -0700

“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.”

- Henry Ward Beecher
(via emilyposts)

webcat: dreameveryday: (via papertissue)

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:17:06 -0700

webcat:

dreameveryday:

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dilaudid: digitalbath: satanicpanic: doom-gloom: vinnieinfurs...

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:16:23 -0700

dilaudid:

digitalbath:

satanicpanic:

doom-gloom:

vinnieinfurs:

katyd:

"We came to writing at an earlier age, from an urge to release a scream that had stuck in our..."

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 00:16:12 -0700

“We came to writing at an earlier age, from an urge to release a scream that had stuck in our throats. Then we worked on our screams until we thought they were something someone might want to hear.”

- stephen elliot. (via meaghano) (via tightgrip)

suicideblonde: Alice by Lewis Carroll

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:09:39 -0700

suicideblonde:

Alice by Lewis Carroll

rgeissler: sweethomestyle: (via cheapandjuicy)

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:08:14 -0700

rgeissler:

sweethomestyle:

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Here are the rules: Don't take too long to think about it. Fifteen books you've read that will always stick with you. They don't have to be the greatest books you've ever read, just the ones that stick with you. First fifteen you can recall in no more than 15 minutes.

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:07:07 -0700

quotington:

1. Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows. (Really, all of them)

2. The Handmaid’s Tale (Scary ass book)

3. Speak

4. Burned

5. Wicked

6. The Lovely Bones

7. The Almost Moon

8. Rainbows and Mud Puddles (It better stick out… it’s my mother’s. When it’s published this fall, I’ll post a link)

9. Little Women

10. Walden

11. A Piece of My Heart

12. The Laramie Project

13. The Effect of Gamma Rays On Man-In-The-Moon Marigolds

14. The Brothers Karamazov

15. The Backstage Guide to Stage Management

rgeissler: restartmyheart: by Kyn. Lauren

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:18:28 -0700

rgeissler:

restartmyheart:

by Kyn. Lauren

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Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:49:31 -0700

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Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:29:48 -0700

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dilaudid: dannybrito: morgandetoi: hollyso:(via iadoreit)

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:52:48 -0700

dilaudid:

dannybrito:

morgandetoi:

hollyso:(via iadoreit)

ameliamagritte: (via icanmakewaffles)

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:06:26 -0700

ameliamagritte:

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the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks

Mon, 29 Jun 2009 17:57:17 -0700

the "blog" of "unnecessary" quotation marks:

scout:

A+

shiningstar: lialia: No! I hate serial commas. I really do....

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:36:53 -0700

shiningstar:

lialia:

No! I hate serial commas. I really do. They are messy.

nicksummers:

Aux barricades!

I looooove serial commas. I should say that I love, love, love them.

Plus one for serial commas.

bohemea: Mia Wasikowska as Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice In...

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 20:54:41 -0700

bohemea:

Mia Wasikowska as Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice In Wonderland