wellreadlife

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[wwwwellreadlife]

[flowerytale]

Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

[liquidlightandrunningtrees]

“The ancient Greeks believed that when you read aloud, it was actually the dead, borrowing your tongue, in order to speak again.”

— Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being

[macrolit]

“Finally, from so little sleeping and so much reading, his brain dried up and he went completely out of his mind.”

— Don Quixote, Miguel de Cervantes (b. 29 September 1547)

[macrolit]

“Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.”

— Jane Smiley (b. 26 September 1949)

[teachingliteracy]

“Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space. There is warmth there too – a hearth. I sit down with a book and I am warm.”

— Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Grove Press, March 6, 2012)  (via dk-thrive)

[bookaddict24-7]

“…but one can’t be irredeemable who shows reverence for books.”

— Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor 

[quotemadness]

“Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.”

— Immanuel Kant

[dailynietzsche]

“In solitude the solitary man consumes himself, in public the crowd consumes him. Now choose.”

—Human, All Too Human, “Assorted Opinions and Maxims,” §348 (edited).

[qlmondmilk]

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚊𝚗𝚞𝚊𝚛𝚢 𝟸𝟼, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[wordsarelifereviews]

Better to take a book and not have time to read, than have time to read and have no book.

- An ancient bookworm proverb

[artfoli]

“Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our lives. As Kafka said, “ The meaning of life is that it ends.” Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create.”

— ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory’ by Caitlin Doughty

[teachingliteracy]

“I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.”

— Richard Brautigan (via macrolit)

[weltenwellen]

Sara Teasdale, from “The Garden”, Flame and Shadow

[pinktinselmonstrosity]