December 2011
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theliterarysnob asked: Tag, you’re it! Here are the rules: Each tagged person must post ten things about themselves. You have to choose and tag ten people. Go to their blogs and tell them you tagged them. No tag backs.
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How much better is silence; the coffee cup, the table. How much better to sit by...
– Virginia Woolf
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get...
– Mortimer J. Adler
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The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If...
– Susan Sontag - The Benefactor (1963)
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There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event...
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid (via ventriloquistic)
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Cuando la distancia deja de ser destino, caminar se convierte en aprendizaje
– Alejo Carpentier
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Un día, los hombres descubrirán un alfabeto en los ojos de las calcedonias, en...
– Alejo Carpentier - Los Pasos Perdidos
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Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me...
– Sylvia Plath
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Such a sight for sore eyes ..
So I went out to do some last-minute Christmas shopping this morning and I was minding my own business, making my way throught the crowd when suddenly .. a wild whovian appeared! This kid (well, he was about 15 or sth) walked past me wearing a ‘Trust me. I’m a doctor” shirt. And then there were two girls outside a supermarket reading The Hunger Games and The Adventures of...
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crosseyedstranger asked: What would be your best translation of that Borges Haiku? I looked up oscuramente and didn't find much.
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Books say: She did this because. Life says: She did this. Books are where things...
– Julian Barnes - Flaubert’s Parrot
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Because Dickens and Dostoevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much...
– Bob Dylan - Liner notes, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 (2004)
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201980151937 asked: Me encanto tu blog, sobre todo el avatar de los gatos lo encontré adorable *-*
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tabaqueria asked: Me siento afortunada de haber encontrado esta joyita de blog, gracias por compartir tus conocimientos, Laura. Muy interesante :) Saludos desde México.
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Girl: I love being with you
Boy:
Girl: I love to listen to you
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Girl: You're the only one who understands me
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Girl: There will never be anyone else
Boy cannot respond because he is actually a photo of Bob Dylan
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One of the things I find most offensive about what people say about our music is...
– Thom Yorke (via lonelyspeck)
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I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking...
– Jane Austen (In a letter from 1809)
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