March 2012
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“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,...”
– - audrey hepburn
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Feminist Poet Adrienne Rich Dies At 82 : NPR →
Poet Adrienne Rich, whose socially conscious verse influenced a generation of feminist, gay rights and anti-war activists, has died. She was 82.
Through her writing, Rich explored topics such as women’s rights, racism, sexuality, economic justice and love between women.
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“Sorrow is Knowledge: they who know the most, Must mourn the deepest o’er the...”
– lord byron
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How can you get very far if you don’t know who you are? How can you do what you ought if you don’t know what you have got? And if you don’t know which to do Of all the things in front of you Then what you will have when you are through Is just a mess without a clue Of all the best that can come true If you know what and which and who
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“Bookstores are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers...”
– alain de botton
10 Great Short Stories to Read Free Online →
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“Patience, grasshopper,” said Maia. “Good things come to those who wait.”
“I...”
– cassandra clare
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Phonetics: The Sounds of English & Spanish →
I’m having way too much fun with this
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“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a...”
– charles bukowski
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“Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may...”
– vladimir nabokov
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“this was another of our fears: that Life wouldn’t turn out to be like...”
– julian barnes
this isn't happiness.: Jack Kerouac’s List of 30... →
Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
Submissive to everything, open, listening
Try never get drunk outside yr own house
Be in love with yr life
Something that you feel will find its own form
Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
Blow as deep as you want to blow
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind
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“Love is different from most things. If I gave my piece of my chalk to someone,...”
– louis sachar
“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from...”
– william wordsworth
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“Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?”
– anne frank
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“In college, I used to underline sentences that struck me, that made me look up...”
– jhumpa lahiri
“All I do is keep on running in my own cozy, homemade void, my own nostalgic...”
– haruki murakami
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