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“Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Ring of Endless Light (via off-my-rocker)
“Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a...”
– Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (via vanished)
On a related note check out the trailer for the movie. Anne Hathaway sounds fantastic.
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...”
– Oscar Wilde (via aquaticwonder)
“Suddenly there was a great burst of light through the Darkness. The light spread...”
– Madeleine L’Engle, A Wrinkle in Time (via pluiefine)
life goal # 1: get a book published.
“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human...”
– H.P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu (via lunautical)
“Home is behind, the world ahead,
And there are many paths to tread
Through...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring (via alfsaga)
“I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov (via off-my-rocker)
“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves (via thebluearrow)
“How ridiculous that water ran out of your eyes when your heart hurt. Tragic...”
– Inkdeath, Cornelia Funke (via draha)
“a woman who had vanished, not only out of the family and the house but out of...”
– William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom! (via beneathbixbybridge)
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Male contraceptive pill is a step closer after...
A contraceptive pill for men which works by preventing sperm development could result from the discovery of a new gene, scientists have said.
The gene, which is active in the testes, controls the final stages of sperm development. Blocking it would result in temporary infertility, without permanently damaging a man’s sperm-making machinery, the researchers said.
One of the greatest...
“We all start out knowing magic. We are born with whirlwinds, forest fires, and...”
– Robert R. McCammon (via internal-acceptance-movement)
“God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own...”
– Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman (via spetharrific)
“No, I don’t give them names, but I can tell one from another by their shapes and...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via rudeteenager)
“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via timetravel-teacup)
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We are Going to Die. And are so Lucky. →
Alfred A. Knopf Books: 9 Things I’ve Learned About... →
aaknopf:
by Jeff O’Neal
Care
To write the best version of whatever it is you are working on, you’ve got to find some way to care about it. For some folks, this is a grade or a paycheck. For others, it will be the idea or issue itself. In my experience, caring about a grade or a paycheck does not…
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“Good stories write themselves—bad ones have to be written…”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald in a letter to Harold Ober (via alex-ivy)
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“Virtue and purity are not very different from vice, if they are not free from...”
– Anton Chekhov (via scottiehughes)
riyanadee:
when people ask me about books, i could go on and onnnnnnn
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“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your...”
– ― Germaine Greer (via nevermore-ink)
“Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.”
– William S. Burroughs, The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs (via honeyforthehomeless)
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“You smile at the absurdity of your dream and feel at the same time that the...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot (1869)
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“A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close...”
– Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via litreferential)
“I admire him greatly. What I admire the most in him is that he despises us all;...”
– Chekhov on Tolstoy (via noconsensusonaname) 