January 2012
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“What is it about intimacy that makes it so very disturbing?”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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“Time is a great deadener. People forget, get bored, grow old, go away.”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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“It’s a visitor’s privilege to be foolish.”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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“But the rags and ribbons turn to years and then the years are gone.”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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“Fiction needs its specifics, its anchors. It needs also to pass beyond them. It...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit in the Introduction
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“I really don’t see the point of reading in straight lines. We don’t...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit in the Introduction
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“Tears transformed his face, the fall was almost limitless. My father would walk...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Tree of Codes
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“Above all, I wouldn’t want people to think that I want to prove anything....”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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Last Night:
Him: You're holding me hostage! I need to go home!
Me: I am not holding you hostage! Go, flee.
Him: Damn you and your combination of good conversation and brownies.
Me: Next time, I'll let you starve.
Him: Don't you dare.
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“But that had been grief and this was joy. But that grief and this joy were...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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"If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
Taking a leaf out of Vonnegut’s book, and trying to appreciate the moments when they’re there. I had a mostly shit day (study-related, nothing else) where I felt like the biggest idiot known to mankind because there was something I wasn’t quite grasping, and because I was convinced (in the manic manner of exams) that if I didn’t understand this one point I couldn’t...
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You know how sometimes there’s a moment, no matter how small, where you suddenly realise that this time will pass and you’ll miss it like crazy when it does. It could be something big or small, but the realisation that you can’t have it forever is crushing.
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“My life now, my whole life, regardless of all that may happen to me, every...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“Reality had only veiled for a time the inner peace he had found, but it was...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve...”
– Gabriel Zaid, So Many Books
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“His despair was increased by the awareness that he was utterly alone with his...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“Every amorous episode can be, of course, endowed with a meaning: it is...”
– Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse
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“Energy is based on love. And love can’t be drawn from just anywhere, it...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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As my (uni) friends and I have been discussing what the hell to do with our lives once we graduate this year, I find it incredibly, incredibly amusing to know that among my closest friends who have graduated (English unis are three years, Scottish ones four), I can count:
a part-time professional boxer
a professional golfer
a drummer (with a side job teaching music theory)
a teacher of English...
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mydearela asked: Do you have a Twitter?
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“I shall see to it, if I can, that my death makes no statement that my life has...”
– Michel de Montaigne, That our actions should be judged by our intentions
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“In order to undertake anything in family life, it is necessary that there be...”
– Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
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“Why should a woman be limited by anything or anybody? Why should a woman not be...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal?
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“Why do we pursue information that we know will never leave our heads?”
– Dave Eggers, How We Are Hungry (via planetickets)
I mean, I am a lover of information and knowledge and useless facts and I am so hungry to know more about the world. But I also wonder this sometimes, and I get more crabby about it around exam time.
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“Try as I could — which wasn’t very hard — I rarely ended up...”
– Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
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