June 2011
23 posts
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”
– George Orwell (via 12wildswans)
“Print will never die. There’s no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I...”
– J.K. Rowling, Words with JAM magazine (via magicworks)
“There are two kinds of writers; the great ones who can give you truths, and the...”
– Clifton Fadiman (via excessivebookshelf)
“…Most people keep their brains between their legs.”
– Morrissey (Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference)
“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one...”
– On Writing by Stephen King (via lifeofliterature)
“I am not a man of many words but I can honestly say that playing football is all...”
– Paul Scholes (via inventfootball)
“Women who strive to be equal to men lack ambition.”
– Anonymous (via caitlinella)
“She let out a laugh, and then she put her hand over her mouth, like she was...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer (via lifeofliterature)
“The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own...”
– Oscar Wilde (via lifeofliterature)
May 2011
24 posts
“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We...”
– A Woman of No Importance by Oscar Wilde (via lifeofliterature)
“Entrepreneurship and college isn’t necessarily something that can be...”
– Eden W. Full
“A true bubble is when something is overvalued and intensely believed. Education...”
– Peter Thiel
1 tag
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to...”
– Anne Frank
“The persons on whom I have bestowed my dearest love, lie deep in their graves;...”
– Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (via lifeofliterature)
“We’re not moving to a world in which [crises] will never happen or [will] happen...”
– British philosopher John Gray.
Political and economic upheavals, Gray argues, are not the exception but the rule.
more, here.
(via thesmithian)
Friendship
As time goes by in my years that equals a quarter century, i am quickly coming to the realisation that friendship is but only a matter of the mind.
I lost my best friend this year and it is one of the most painful things someone can go through. I wish it on no one!
Yall stay good and remember there is a Higher Being in charge of all of us! Jesus Christ…live and love!!
“When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings...”
– The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain (via lifeofliterature)
“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”
– Jane Smiley, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Novel (via libraryland)
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been....”
– Isaac Asimov (via azspot)
