December 2010
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the rodarte sisters' version of the proust...
ragsandtatters: Read More This is the fruit of my revision avoidance: Favorite play? Either Shakespeare’s Othello or Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. What was your first love? Books. Before I read them I used to eat them. True story. Favorite language? English (as it’s the one I’m most familiar with).  Who is your most loved character in literature? Emma Woodhouse...
Dec 31st
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“All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via lishafisha)
Dec 31st
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“I saw his round mouth’s crimson deepen as it fell, Like a sun, in his...”
– ‘[I Saw His Round Mouth’s Crimson]’ - Wilfred Owen {Probably one of my favourite poems}
Dec 30th
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'I am very conscious to say to children "Aren't...
fojgismyname: - Sophie Dahl (Roald Dahl’s granddaughter)
Dec 29th
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I don’t think I’ll ever stop being surprised by how little you can trust the people you think you know. 
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Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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“Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti - Go your own way, and let the people...”
– From Dante’s Purgatorio.
Dec 28th
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Dec 27th
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“You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style. Ladies and gentlemen...”
– Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
Dec 27th
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Booksbooksbooks: 2010 finds
First a little bit about me: I’m an English Literature student. I read books. I’ve always read books. I intend to read books until my eyes fall out. Or something. Anyway, here are my favourite books that I’ve come across this year: The Millenium Trilogy (aka The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, The Girl Who Played with Fire and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest) - Stieg...
Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 26th
I was told yesterday that I looked like Carey Mulligan. Best. Christmas. Present. Ever? *_* Happy Christmas, everyone.
Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Buffy: What should we do with the trio over here? Should we burn them?
Willow: I brought marshmallows.
Willow: Occasionally I'm callous and strange.
Dec 23rd
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“This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way...”
– ‘The Hollow Men’ - T. S. Eliot
Dec 23rd
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The amazing Poladroid →
This is the fantastic download I use to edit my photographs to look like Polaroids.  Cheating, I know, but with the demise of Polaroid, whaddayagonnado… 
Dec 23rd
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Dec 22nd
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“‘The stars are not wanted now; put out every one, Pack up the moon and...”
– Stanza four of ‘Funeral Blues’ - W. H. Auden
Dec 22nd
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“‘I like to look for things no one else catches. I hate the way drivers...”
– Amélie Poulain in Amélie.
Dec 21st
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Dec 20th
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August 1914 - Isaac Rosenberg
* What in our lives is burnt In the fire of this? The heart’s dear granary? The much we shall miss? Three lives hath one life -  Iron, honey, gold. The gold, the honey gone -  Left is the hard and cold. Iron are our lives Molten right through our youth. A burnt space through ripe fields, A fair mouth’s broken tooth.
Dec 20th
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Dec 16th