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"The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!"

Carson McCullers (via yurcatfishfriend)

— 1 year ago with 6 notes

#Reba McIntire as well #The Heart is a Lonely Hunter #book

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— 1 year ago with 14667 notes

#book #inspiration

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sam wagstaff

— 1 year ago with 7 notes

#art #book

"Go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven’s sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

Kurt Vonnegut, with your friendly weekend reminder to get creative.

[Quote from his 2006 essay collection A Man Without a Country]

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— 1 year ago with 5173 notes

#book #inspiration

"So therefore, I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger- because I cannot dedicate myself to any human being."

Jack Kerouac (via suzywire)

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— 1 year ago with 2551 notes

#inspiration #book

"Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via mermaidsongs)

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— 1 year ago with 15629 notes

#book

"Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don’t know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better."

Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)

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— 1 year ago with 71 notes

#book

"My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends—
It gives a lovely light!"

— 1 year ago

#Edna St. Vincent Millay #First Fig #book

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You realize that people take drugs because it’s the only real personal adventure left to them in their time-constrained, law-and-order, property-lined world.

It’s only in drugs or death we’ll see anything new, and death is just too controlling.

"

Chuck Palahniuk (via myheadisweak)

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— 1 year ago with 154 notes

#chuck palahniuk #drugs #fuck #survivor #book

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn’t wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?…We need the books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea inside us."

Franz Kafka (via talkativolive)

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— 1 year ago with 1488 notes

#Franz Kafka #quote #book

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— 1 year ago with 964 notes

#invitation #poems #poetry #shel silverstein #book

"I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can’t really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, ‘If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we’ll talk.’ All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don’t want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket."

Ray Bradbury, from raybradbury.com article (via bookoasis)

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— 1 year ago with 875 notes

#Ray Bradbury #books #computer #lit #paper books #smell #book

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— 1 year ago with 15065 notes

#book

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— 1 year ago with 334 notes

#book

katesdreamhouse:

fishingboatproceeds:

One of my major life goals is to own a home with secret rooms and passageways. Ideally, I would like to build such spaces before Henry is old enough to be aware of architecture, so he will grow up believing that it is common and normal for buildings to have magical and secret worlds within them.

^ that is crazy sweet.

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— 1 year ago with 10239 notes

#library #house #bookshelf #books #book #study #interior design #home #reading #awesome #secret passageway #best #cool #love