Em Reads Books

And then tumblrs about them.

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Faber: Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land?

Faber: The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.

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We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindness there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

James Boswell

Quoted by Ray Bradbury in Fahrenheit 451

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New video about feeling more alive and “The Hearth and the Salamander,” Part I of Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, which we’re reading for the Nerdfighter Book Club.

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We need not be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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How many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often [...] torches, blazing away until they whiffed out.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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She had a very thin face like the dial of a small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of the night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and knowing what it has to tell of the night passing swiftly on toward further advances, but moving also toward a new sun.

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

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I know this is not strictly from Bossypants but it is being reblogged and there is nothing you can do about it.

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If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important rule of beauty, which is: who cares?

Tina Fey, Bossypants

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To say I’m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair.

Tina Fey, Bossypants

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In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way.

Tina Fey, Bossypants

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BLORFT - Completely overwhelmed but proceeding as if everything is fine and reacting to the stress with the torpor of a possum.

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“Maybe it’s seventy years in the future and you found this book in a stack of junk being used to block the entrance of an abandoned Starbucks that is now a feeding station for the alien militia. If that’s the case, I have some questions for you. Such as: ‘Did we really ruin the environment as much as we thought?’ and “Is Glee still a thing?”

Tina Fey’s Bossypants  (via an-oaky-afterbirth)

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-the split oak forking overhead- -the capillary universe of leafless treetops threading the horizon- -cursive alphabets invented by our footprints- -the fibula of beach lying hard and gleaming below- -the bilious curdle of surf- -rock scatterings that drew invisible pentagrams between points- -the shape of the outcropping itself: a fallen maple leaf of stone-

Daniel Kraus, Rotters

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Sometimes the dead stand in the way of progress.

Daniel Kraus, Rotters