January 2010
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“This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise...”
– Walt Whitman, in his preface to Leaves of Grass.
via Sheila Variations
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“Google Wave was built to show younger people how older people feel when they try...”
– swissmiss | Google Wave…
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Walking in Holden's Footsteps - Interactive Map →
Oohhh… very cool!
booklover:
samchase:
Trace Holden Caulfield’s perambulations around Manhattan in “The Catcher in the Rye” to places like the Edmont Hotel, where Holden had an awkward encounter with Sunny the hooker; the lake in Central Park, where he wondered about the ducks in winter; and the clock at the Biltmore, where he waited for his date. Roll your mouse over each point and...
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“A lot of the people who read a bestselling novel, for example, do not read much...”
– Interesting thought. Hmmmm….
The Economist, “A World of Hits”, Nov. 26, 2009
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“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of...”
– Stephen King (via bookscakesnkisses) (via booklover)
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“War doesn’t determine who’s right - only who’s left.”
– Bertand Russell (via rispostesenzadomanda) (via clairefisher) (via booklover)
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a poem for pattie, my poem seeking pal
may my heart always be open to little birds who are the secrets of living whatever they sing is better than to know and if men should not hear them men are old
may my mind stroll about hungry and fearless and thirsty and supple and even if it’s sunday may i be wrong for whenever men are right they are not young
and may myself do nothing usefully and love yourself so more than truly...
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“We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves.”
– Lynn Hall (via bitchville) (via coccaonthinks) (via booklover)
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“Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via winterlief) (via booklover)
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