December 2011
86 posts
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“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well,...”
– Amy Tan - The Hundred Secret Senses
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“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily...”
– Ian McEwan - Atonement
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“I would always rather be happy than dignified”
– Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
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“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by...”
– Oscar Wilde - The Critic as Artist
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“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own...”
– Oscar Wilde
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“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
– C.S. Lewis
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“Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical...”
– -J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
(via lotsofbookquotes)
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“Surely it is the most blameworthy ignorance to believe that one knows what one...”
– Plato, Socrates in Apology (via distantheartbeats)
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“Don’t let me get sappy on you, but when you get right down to it, every...”
– Out of Oz, Gregory Maguire (via booklit)
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Book #61: Wolf of the Plains
“We are one people…”
I went home for the holidays, and assuming I would be receiving books for Christmas didn’t pack more than the two I was reading. Well, I finished both of those on my first day home and there were still three days until Christmas. I was scrounging around looking for a new book that would be quick to read because I didn’t want to have to...
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“‘We feed the soil with our blood, our endless feuding…We always...”
– Conn Iggulden - Wolf of the Plains
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“I hope you will have a wonderful year, that you’ll dream dangerously and...”
– Neil Gaiman (via fleurishes)
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“Courage cannot be left like bones in a bag. It must be brought out and shown...”
– Conn Iggulden - Wolf of the Plains
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-25) →
Coldplay (16)
Bob Dylan (12)
Girls (11)
She & Him (11)
Vince Guaraldi Trio (5)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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Book #60: Nineteen Eighty-Four
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
This is a novel that I have picked up and started many times, but never actually finished. Again, I’m not sure why. I think there are times in our lives when we are not ready to read and fully comprehend books. Maybe I was never ready to read Nineteen Eighty-Four until now, who knows.
I really enjoyed reading this...
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“It is impossible to found a civilisation on fear and hatred and cruelty. It...”
– George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
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Book #59: A Christmas Carol
“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round…as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race...
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Book #58: The Year of the Flood
“What am I living for and what I am dying for are the same question.”
Margaret Atwood can do little wrong in my mind. I initially started reading this book because I’ve been kind of loving dystopian fiction lately, although it’s been a while since I read one. I thought that The Year of the Flood was a stand alone novel. About halfway through, I realised that it was...
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“Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was...”
– George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
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“Even today, in a period of decline, the average human being is physically better...”
– George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
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“But when war becomes literally continuous, it also ceases to be dangerous.”
– George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
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“‘Men’s courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered...”
– Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
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“She was very pretty, exceedingly pretty. With a dimpled, surprised-looking,...”
– Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
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“‘There are some upon this earth of yours,’ returned the spirit,...”
– Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
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“All the prophets have striven to make love manifest in the hearts of men. His...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“The favors of God are unending, limitless. Infinite bounties have encompassed...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“Today these heavenly Teachings are the remedy for a sick and suffering world,...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
– Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life (via literatureismyutopia)
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-12-18) →
Sufjan Stevens (22)
Trans-Siberian Orchestra (7)
Leon Redbone/Zooey Deschanel (4)
Jim Reeves (4)
Leon Redbone (3)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
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“He has the power to render us happy or unhappy; to make our service light or...”
– Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
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“The light of the sun becomes apparent in each object according to the capacity...”
– ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
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“What you say or do doesn’t matter: only feelings matter. If they could...”
– George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
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“‘I wear the chain I forged in life…I made it link by link, and yard...”
– Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol
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“But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...”
– Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol