May 2012
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“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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"May" by Christina Rossetti
I cannot tell you how it was, But this I know: it came to pass Upon a bright and sunny day When May was young; ah, pleasant May! As yet the poppies were not born Between the blades of tender corn; The last egg had not hatched as yet, Nor any bird foregone its mate. I cannot tell you what it was, But this I know: it did but pass. It passed away with sunny May, Like all sweet things it...
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“But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself, into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously…”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
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Random House: 13 Gifts for Graduates from... →
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“You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” ― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
Oh, The Places You’ll Go, by Dr. Seuss The Best Advice I Ever Got, by Katie Couric What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012, by…
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“What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.”
― Italo Calvino
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“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.”
― Emma Thompson
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“I am free and that is why I am lost.”
― Franz Kafka
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“At some point in your life, this statement will be true: Tomorrow you will lose everything forever.”
― Charles Yu, How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe
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What I say is, a town isn’t a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a...
– Neil Gaiman, American Gods (via larmoyante)
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11 Gifts for Moms Who Love Memoirs
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Mom taught you to always tell the truth. Show her you learned your lesson with the gift of a memoir. From Anna Quindlen’s funny, candid, and moving Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake to Cheryl Strayed’s powerful, unstintingly honest Wild to Garry Marshall’s entertaining reminiscence-filled My Happy Days in Hollywood, you’ll find the perfect present for mom.
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“He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.”
― Marguerite Duras, The Lover
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