August 2012
“He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the...”
– Cormac McCarthy - The Road (via umyehok)
: Book PDF Masterposts for the frustrated →
janne:
I want to stress that I don’t know if all these links work, because I haven’t tested all of them. Enjoy your reading!!
Books/Comics masterpost
ASOIAF :both tv series as (audio)books
Books masterpost
Book resources
100 novels you should read according to BBC masterpost
Young Justice Comics masterpost
Batwoman comics masterpost
Books masterpost
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“How many times have I heard some of the cleverest women I know being called...”
– Being “Nice” (via chubby-bunnies)
“I love with such ferocity that it kills me when the object of my love shows by a...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via seabois)
“I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.”
– Chinese Proverb (via les-jours-pluvieux)
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“I intended it, you know, on a much more pretentious, deep level. You know, that...”
– Woody Allen on The Purple Rose of Cairo
Woody Allen: A Documentary
(via bickety-bam)
“This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man’s brain out of his hair. That...”
– The Road, Cormac McCarthy
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“[…] This was the perfect day of his childhood. This the day to shape the...”
– The Road, Cormac McCarthy
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“Some men say an army of horses and some men say an army on foot / and some men...”
– Sappho (via ifoundmyselfinlovewiththeworld)
What is a Planet? →
procyonvulpecula:
An interesting alternative view by planetary scientist David Grinspoon (podcast)
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Ever since I found out that a nearby thrift store sells books (often as good as new) at prices ranging from 50 cents to €2, I’ve seen my book collection grow at a rate of about five books per month, which comes down to a questionable total of 45 books this year. That’s roughly a fifth of my book collection as a whole. I suppose this is really just a very intricate way of sharing with...
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“[M]any nations of the third world are described as ‘underdeveloped’. These less...”
– Robert B. Moore, “Racist Stereotyping in the English Language” (via wretchedoftheearth)(via mehreenkasana)
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“To dream of that beach
For the sake of an instant in the eyes,
The absolute...”
– from Of Being Numerous, by George Oppen (via invisiblestories)
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Lana Del Rey - Radio
“You really, really have to be a warrior and a motherfucker. And you have to be...”
– The Great Discontent: Cheryl Strayed (via twistednuns)
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“Whatever you are physically…male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy—all...”
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Clockwork Angel, Cassandra Clare
(via itsluckyimclever)
“Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere globs of gas...”
– Richard Feynman (via paradox-explained)
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“Gen Y – those born between 1979 and 1989 – spent the most money on books in...”
– So much for that “young people don’t read” nonsense. (via thebronzemedal)
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One second you’re taking a shower, the next you’re closing windows and running down the stairs half naked because the town siren is going off. Apparently it was a system error. Yeah well, tell that to my heart that’s still going at a rate of 200 beats per minute.
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“I think I am a little indifferent now what anyone thinks. Life’s joy is in the...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a diary entry dated 27 October 1928. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
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The Tangential: 10 Reasons Your Anxiety is Awesome →
thetangential:
Millions of Americans live with generalized anxiety disorder, an illness memoirist and blogger Jenny Lawson describes as “basically like having all of the other anxiety disorders smooshed into one.” I was diagnosed with GAD when I was a kid and my mom realized I spent a lot of time laying…
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“Meanwhile in my head,
I’m undergoing open-heart surgery”
– Anne Sexton, from Red Riding Hood. (via loveyourchaos)
“In 30 years observations, Jane Goodall never saw one rape among the chimpanzees,...”
– Truth About Rape (via slutwalkseattle) 