September 2010
36 posts
One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.
– Jack Kerouac. The Dharma Bums
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to...
– Pat Conroy. The Prince of Tides
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what i've learned about reading and being able to...
It’s probably best to never discover what the authors of your favourite books look like. Then, the words didn’t originate from the mind of someone you could easily have seen on the street, but are the truth of your imagination, forever and ever.
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more...
– Albert Einstein
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
– Oscar Wilde
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Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the...
– E.M. Forster. Howards End.
I, in everything, is only a letter if let filtered by the eye. Beyond the eye and through the soul, I, in everything, am.
She loved him with too clear a vision to fear his cloudiness.
– E.M. Forster. HOWARD’S END
Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart...
– Jane Eyre. Charlotte Bronte. JANE EYRE
The world is too much with us; late and soon,
Getting and spending, we lay...
– Wordsworth
Plenty to see and hear and feel yet.
– Leopold Bloom. James Joyce ULYSSES.
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In science, one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by...
– Paul Dirac