January 2012
19 posts
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“I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I’d been able to, we could have lived...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer
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“Nature is just one thing preying on another all the way down the line. Nature is...”
– Alice Munro, Lives of Girls and Women (via riskofblossoming)
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Historical Nonfiction: New Year's Traditions →
historical-nonfiction:
It was first observed in ancient Babylon about 4000 years ago.
The Druids gave a gift of twigs from the mistletoe. It would bestow on the recipient a fruitful year in the number of children, as well as the amount of cattle and the amount of crop.
In Australia New Year is a day for outdoor…
December 2011
34 posts
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“Ours is not to know why; ours is but to do and die.”
– Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and...”
– The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
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“I invent nothing, I rediscover.”
– Auguste Rodin
“I love sleep, my life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake.”
– Ernest Hemingway
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“Was it Ovid who said, There is so much wind here stones go blank.”
– Anne Carson, Decreation
“The problem with words is that you can really talk yourself into a corner....”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
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“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
– J.M. Barrie
