February 2012
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An unfamiliar city is a fine thing. That’s the time and place when you can...
– Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night (via liquidnight)
The Internet has co-opted the word “browse” for its own purposes, but it’s worth...
– Nicole Krauss, The End of Bookstores (via sunrec)
January 2012
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She is a girl and would not be afraid to walk the whole world with herself.
– Augusta Gregory, Visions And Beliefs In The West Of Ireland (via liquidnight)
December 2011
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But if a waking writer tells you that his tale is only a thing imagined in his...
– “On Fairy-Stories”, by J. R. R. Tolkien
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Faërie itself may perhaps most nearly be translated by Magic - but it is magic...
– “On Fairy-Stories” by J. R. R. Tolkien
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A gare parecia uma estação de brinquedo e o vendedor de bilhetes tinha cara de...
– “Na Patagónia”, de Bruce Chatwin
November 2011
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Photographers have this sole ability to make a gorgeous picture from a very...
When you choose one way out of many; all the ways you don’t take are snuffed out...
– His Dark Materials(The Amber Spyglass), Philip Pullman (via onesunnycloudyday)
October 2011
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Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it gets you...
– Erma Bombeck
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OZARK (n.)
One who offers to help just after all the work has been done.
– “The Meaning of Liff”, by Douglas Adams
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Desvario laborioso e empobrecedor é o de compor vastos livros; o de espraiar por...
– Prólogo de “Ficções”, de Jorge Luís Borges
I wish life was not so short…Languages take such a time, and so do all the...
– J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lost Road (via tothestarrs)
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He said it was ‘impossible to invent a new colour Otter’ as they had already all...
September 2011
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