January 2010
69 posts
Jan 30th
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“Life is not about significant details, illuminated in a flash, fixed forever....”
– Susan Sontag
Jan 30th
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“I wish to God for my days to be overflowing with brilliance and only to be...”
Jan 27th
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“We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should...”
– The Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby This quote is head-on. I’m sure a lot of people would agree. That are so many books I read too young and couldn’t appreciate, or read too old and the magic slipped past me. There are some books you read for school or university and being told to read them makes...
Jan 27th
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Jan 26th
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Jan 26th
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“Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of...”
– Stephen King
Jan 26th
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“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Jan 26th
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“What we need are books that hit us like a most painful misfortune, like the...”
– Franz Kafka
Jan 26th
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“I am now officially an Internal Medicine resident physician.”
Jan 25th
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Jan 23rd
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When books could change your life →
A girl I once caught reading Fahrenheit 451 over my shoulder on the subway confessed: “You know, I’m an English lit major, but I’ve never loved any books like the ones I loved when I was 12 years old.”
Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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Jan 23rd
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I will never understand why people choose to be...
loveyourchaos: When it is just as easy to be kind and help people make things better. “Hate is easy, love takes courage.”
Jan 22nd
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Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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“Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the...”
–  Vladimir Nabokov, Pnin
Jan 21st
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“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be...”
– - Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill
Jan 21st
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ListenThe Last Day of Magic - The Kills
Jan 21st
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Jan 21st
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Alice in Wonderland
Alice: I simply must get through.
Doorknob: Sorry, you're much too big, simply impassible.
Alice: You mean impossible?
Doorknob: No, impassible. Nothing's impossible.
Jan 21st
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“A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several...”
– ~William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958
Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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Jan 19th
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“Sana pwede idaan sa kape ang lahat ng problema :(”
Jan 17th
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“You’ll never go wrong when you work with someone smarter than you.”
–  Tibor Kalman
Jan 16th
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Lungs: Now Available in Four Colours →
Jan 16th
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Jan 16th
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Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
I’m making a book list for a high school library.  Do you have any suggested readings?
Jan 14th
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Why am I bothering to get up? What is the...
Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs I ask myself the same thing every day.
Jan 13th
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Ask me something →
Jan 13th
I just want to read and listen to music all day.
Jan 12th
“Woke up at 5 am thinking is there something I can look forward to today? Thirty...”
Jan 12th
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Listendjsquints: Air - Alpha Beta Gaga
Jan 12th
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Listen This Will Destroy You - I Believe In Your...
Jan 12th
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“The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent...”
–  Bertrand Russell.
Jan 12th
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Listenelectrikmuse: “Starlight” - Muse Our hopes...
Jan 12th
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ListenChasing Pavements - Adele
Jan 11th
“ The time to relax is when you don’t have time for it. ”
– John Goodwin & Sydney J. Harris
Jan 11th
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“I sometimes think that people’s hearts are like deep wells. Nobody knows what’s...”
– Haruki Murakami (via kari-shma)
Jan 11th
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Jan 11th
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