May 2012
4 posts
“People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they...”
– WIlliam S. Burroughs, The Western Lands (via honeyforthehomeless)
“I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or...”
– The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath (via iamjenye)
“There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the pointless drama...”
– Karl Marx (via sixtydiamondminutes)
“I think that one of these days you’re going to have to find out where you want...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via bookmania)
April 2012
35 posts
“Language fits over experience like a straight jacket.”
-William Golding
“Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.”
– Karl Marx (via theredhammerandsickle)
“The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion,...”
– Albert Einstein, The World As I See It (1949)
“A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability and beauty...”
– Aldo Leopold (via citizenengineer)
7 tags
“Secrets go faster than moles underground.”
– Richard Adams, Watership Down
7 tags
“We come into the world and we have to go: but we do not go merely to serve the...”
– Richard Adams, Watership Down
14 tags
“Animals don’t behave like men. If they have to fight, they fight; and if...”
– Richard Adams, Watership Down
8 tags
“There are times when we know for a certainty that all is well.”
– Richard Adams, Watership Down
“Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different...”
– Hermann Hesse (via libraryland)
“All human beings are dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”
– Jack Kerouac (via des0lationintheworld)
9 tags
“We’re living off the overcapacity of our forefathers.”
– Jerry Del Tufo
Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
15 tags
“The ecosystem here will be a human artifact that will persist in our absence, a...”
– Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
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“No human beings, except the courageous and experienced blind, are able to sense...”
– Richard Adams, Watership Down
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“Who wants to hear about brave deeds when he’s ashamed of his own, and who...”
– Richard Adams, Watership Down
8 tags
“What is now proved was once only imagin’d.”
– William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
5 tags
“There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.”
– Jawaharlal Nehru
“Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to...”
– Lemony Snicket (via marxoraneedle)
“Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five...”
– Edward Abbey (via americandissident)
“If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face —...”
– lGeorge Orwel, 1984 (via chelseymathews)
7 tags
“.. the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to...”
– George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
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“To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung...”
– Richard Adams, Watership Down
15 tags
“Creatures that have neither class nor books are alive to all manner of knowledge...”
– Richard Adams, Watership Down
“Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask...”
– Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as the Candle in The Dark (via blua)
12 tags
“Rabbits, of course, have no idea of precise time or of punctuality. In this...”
– Richard Adams, Watership Down
11 tags
“…death is like that: people are alive until they die.”
– Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
7 tags
“Some people are thouroughly self-centered.”
– Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
10 tags
“Of course you hate getting angry! You don’t like anything unpleasant, do...”
– Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Choke (via libraryland)
March 2012
50 posts
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...”
– Sylvia Plath (via how-novelistic)
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives...”
– George R. R. Martin (via bookstorecouture)
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a...”
– Robert A. Heinlein (via infinitives)
“We have very primitive emotions. It’s impossible not to be competitive. Spoils...”
– Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills Of Africa (via libraryland)
“You get ideas from daydreaming. You get ideas from being bored. You get ideas...”
– Neil Gaiman (via writingadvice)
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via honeyforthehomeless)
“The ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally...”
– Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X (via libraryland)
13 tags
“Interesting things did seem to happen, but always to somebody else.”
– Diana Wynne Jones, Howl’s Moving Castle 