January 2011
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“The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in...”
– Henry Steele Commager (via libraryland)
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Dear Others Who Write,
These are two of the most perfectly balanced and weighted sentences I’ve read in a long time, and are all the more painful for being from a memoir. Read ‘em and weep never sounded so apt.
“At some point I imagined a kind of time - I don’t know whether I got this idea from science or science fiction, not being much interested in either - that split...
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“Some months back, I gave thought to becoming a skeleton in a medical school...”
– Mary Roach, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Penguin, 2004, p. 281)
Quotations like this are why I love Mary Roach’s perspective on life and death so much - the way she manages to seamlessly merge the profound and the absurd.
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take this sinking boat and point it home →
Sarah Slean and NQ Arbuckle performing ‘Falling Slowly’.
Man, is this cover a heartbreaker. I’m beginning to think that Neville Quinlan has a monopoly on big-hearted, generous vocals.
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midenianscholar:
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“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via ahobbitstale)
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“Once a little boy sent me a charming card with a little drawing on it. I loved...”
– Maurice Sendak (via hannahletourneau)
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“With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?”
– Oscar Wilde (via turquoisekush)