December 2009
8 posts
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“There are two kinds of artists in this world; those that work because the spirit...”
– Anna Katharine Green (via quote-book)
I wonder which I fall under.
(via travisclau)
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A Woolf in sheep's clothing / A Jane by any other...
It is difficult, to be a woman and to write. This is something we have been told for years. Really, it is two somethings. 1) It is difficult to be a woman, and 2) it is difficult to write. Both of these, I would suggest, have equal claims to truth. But the problem is in not realizing that a great deal of other things in this world are also difficult. It is difficult to fly an aeroplane. It is...
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“Personally, I’m of the belief that cliches are entirely relative to how...”
– Jim Butcher
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“The strange thing, on looking back, was the purity, the integrity, of her...”
– Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
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Rebecca
I found this book on a restless night, and having had it recommended at first by Rebecca and then by Peggy as something to read since I liked Jane Eyre, it seemed like just what I needed in my life.
The first thing that hit me was the description. That first dream sequence is so vivid, so metaphorical, and yet so elusive. I feel like du Maurier has picked every individual word with care and...
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“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...”
– Marianne Williamson (via johannal) (via quote-book) (via travisclau)
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“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with...”
– Lemony Snicket (via kari-shma) (via travisclau)
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"Savage complexity" →
You know, although I’d move Darcy further up the list (and introduce a few others), I can’t lie — Rochester doesn’t make for a bad #1.