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Posted on May 6, 2012 via Crystal Clear Inspiration with 806 notes
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Posted on May 6, 2012 via MONAUX ~ Curiosity Conveyor with 1,036 notes
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while i am not a fan of nicholas’ writing- this one resonants right now.
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Posted on April 14, 2012 via lalalovee♥ with 477 notes
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I think the most dissapointing thing about growing up has been learning that the publishing industry is not, in fact, a magical collaborative that does whatever it can to bring me new and fantastic books but rather a whole bunch of seperate companies that care nothing for stories and characters but love to fight over money and pricing and crap like that.
sadly true
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Posted on April 14, 2012 via Blame the Goat with 334 notes
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We have never tried to corner the market on information or drive any other organization out of business. We’re the opposite of empire builders. We’re trying to preserve access to common ground where ideas can be shared openly, not a trading pit for buyers and sellers. We’re not serving customers, we represent the will of the people so they can help themselves and be part of a community that learns.
Barbara Fister, “Do Librarians Work Hard Enough?” (via thelifeguardlibrarian)(via thepersonalispolitic)
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Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
Louise Erdrich, The Painted Drum (via writersbloqinc)(via teachingliteracy)
Posted on April 8, 2012 via Book Mania! with 4,139 notes
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… I’m also comfortably asocial—a hermit in the middle of Seattle—a pessimist if I’m not careful, a feminist, a black, a former Baptist, an oil-and-water combination of ambition, laziness, insecurity, certainty, and drive.
Octavia Butler (via breegant) my hero.(via thepersonalispolitic)
Posted on April 3, 2012 via b r e e g a n t with 367 notes
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Posted on March 5, 2012 via In love with a fairytale with 30,543 notes
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To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work.
Mary Oliver (via paperlover)(via teachingliteracy)
Posted on February 29, 2012 via Paper Lover with 58 notes
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You have every right to put a book down after a couple of pages, which is why it’s always wise to read a little before buying. Life is simply too short for the wrong books, or even the right books at the wrong time.
Tim Parks, Mindful Reading (via distantheartbeats)(via teachingliteracy)
Posted on February 29, 2012 via Distant Heartbeats with 263 notes
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