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“We’re going to have a strange life.”
Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell To Arms
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"I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it’s better than college. People should educate themselves - you can get a complete education for no money. At the end of 10 years, I had read every book in the library and I’d written a thousand stories."
Ray Bradbury (via feelinganddreaming)
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Can’t get enough of Edith Wharton these days, although the descriptions of the harsh bitter cold Massachusetts weather I could do without. I’m trying my damnedest to hold onto summer. Maybe my next read should be Steinbeck?
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Such a short read that I didn’t compile any quotes! It was number two on Chapters list of best books, it was entertaining, but number two on a best books list!? It wasn’t THAT great. It read like a short story and I wasn’t crazy about any of the characters other than Miss Brodie.
Also, is the movie Mona Lisa Smile almost completely ripped from this?
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Five Dollar Words That Books Taught Me
Irreverent - Showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously.
Inimitable - So good or unusual as to be impossible to copy.
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This is why I don’t Impose a book buying ban on myself. The minute I decide to I go out and buy books.
The very top one that the sun is blocking is Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.
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"We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next."
Saul Bellow (via feelinganddreaming)
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“It is a pleasure very near to sadness, bringing tears to one’s eyes like a beautiful picture or poem.”
Lewis Carroll, An Easter Greeting: To Every Child Who Loves Alice
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"A reviewer in Sharpe’s London Magazine wrote an article warning his readers against reading the book, especially his lady readers. His review noting its “profane expressions, inconceivably coarse language, and revolting scenes and descriptions by which its pages are disfigured”."
Wikipedia (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
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Bottom three are finished, the top two are some library impulses.
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"Once more she had managed, by her sheer simplicity, to make him feel stupidly conventional just when he thought he was flinging convention to the winds."
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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"But my name, Auntie - my name’s Regina Dallas,” I said: “It was Beaufort when he covered you with jewels, and it’s got to stay Beaufort now that he’s covered you with shame."
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence (May I say Mrs. Wharton… Awwww snap!)
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"Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all deadly sins."
Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]
Otis Redding - Wonderful World
