August 2011
“We say the name to ourselves, and as we remain silent it seems as though we...”
– Marcel Proust (via atomos)
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: a human creature born...”
– Pearl S. Buck, as quoted in The 101 Habits of Highly Successful Screenwriters by Karl Inglesias. (via bookoasis)
“Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and...”
– Susan B. Anthony (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“I love your silences, they are like mine. You are the only being before whom I...”
– Anaïs Nin, Under a Glass Bell (via melancholynotes)
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly,...”
– Henry Miller (via bookmania)
July 2011
“I never need to find time to read. When people say to me, ‘Oh, yeah, I love...”
– J.K. Rowling (via hold-a-wolfs-ears)
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day...”
– John Lubbock (via amorette)
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via misswallflower)
Food for thought...
lgbtlaughs:
If the X-Men is a metaphor for the treatment of LGBT people around the world, does that make Cerebro a giant gaydar?
(Submitted by shelleylinker)
“That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you’ve understood...”
– Doris Lessing (via petalsquotesandthorns)
As I enter the library every problem I face...
teachingliteracy:
countrycupboard
Literary Confession: I HAVE to own the books I...
Sometimes I wish I could un-read books just so I...
teachingliteracy:
papercrushed
“If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity...”
– Somerset Maugham (via writingadvice)
Two books pulled from Republic school library... →
prettybooks:
This makes me so angry. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Sarah Ockler’s Twenty Boy Summer will be removed from the school’s curriculum and library. Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson will be kept. Wesley Scroggins, a Republic resident, challenged the use of the books and lesson plans in Republic schools, arguing they teach principles contrary to the Bible. “I congratulate them...
