May 2012
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‘More people are good because they are happy than happy because they are...
– Resistance by Owen Sheers, p.284
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I’ve accomplished something,...
– Nora Ephron (via atomos)
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12 Famous Book Titles That Come From Poetry →
spiffing-books:
1. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold - “I Knew a Woman” by Theodore Roethke
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them; Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: The shapes a bright container can contain!
2. A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh - The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
…I will show you something different from either Your...
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
– Dodie Smith (via the-pigeon-detective)