February 2011
84 posts
100 University Libraries that Anyone Can Access
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If you’ve spent any time out of college then congratulations, you no longer have to be part of the under educated fringe of society. Instead, with over 100 libraries you can enter the over educated fringe of society. If you’re reading this, I don’t expect you to escape the fringe however educated you are.
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“Everything she wanted to say was backed up inside her, a vague amorphous mass...”
– From Uninvited by Justine Musk (via lost-in-the-music)
“The long train ride was like traveling through limbo. You weren’t anywhere when...”
– Katherine Paterson (via hourglasss)
“Whenever a grammar book comes my way, I instantly turn to the last page to enjoy...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Speak, Memory (via d0novan)
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via tobeshelved)
The course of true love never did run smooth.
sweetinsomniac:
- William Shakespeare
The Sparkly Dove: Sonnet CIX O! never say that I... →
sparklydove:
Sonnet CIX
O! never say that I was false of heart, Though absence seemed my flame to qualify, As easy might I from my self depart As from my soul which in thy breast doth lie: That is my home of love: if I have ranged, Like him that travels, I return again; Just to the time, not…
“there would be a strong argument for saying that much of the most powerful...”
– frederick buechner & 1 corinthians 1:27-28 (via everyday-poetry)
“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more...”
– Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy)
“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt. I fear; I think strange things which I...”
– Johnathan Harker; Dracula (via iamanexit, saintofkillers) (via recycled-words)
“Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that...”
– Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (via whabam)
“You can’t get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
– C.S. Lewis (via iwasyourdadsbestfriend)
“You will meet many foes, some open and some disguised; and you may find friends...”
– Elrond The Fellowship of the Ring (I mixed the characters up originally =/)
“Bastion looked at the book.
‘I wonder,’ he said to himself, ‘what’s in a book...”
– Michael Ende (The Neverending Story)
“I am a writer. I suppose I think that the highest gift that a man has is art,...”
– Lorraine Hansberry (via awritersruminations)
“We can talk when there’s anybody worth talking to”
– Tigerlilly (via ellensmind)
“Make your choice, adventurous stranger; Strike the bell and bide the danger, or...”
– C.S. Lewis The Magician’s Nephew (via bayou-royalty)
“Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are...”
– C.S. Lewis (via simoneybaloney)
“And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared...”
– — J.R.R. Tolkien ColaCarla (via quote-book)
“I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It...”
– — Diana Gabaldon (Dragonfly in Amber)ColaCarla (via quote-book)
“A library book, I imagine, is a happy book.”
– Cornelia Funke (via yccclibrary)
“… a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to...”
– C.S. Lewis (Mere Christianity)
“At that moment, there was a diversion in the form of a small, red-headed figure...”
– Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Chapter Three (via fuckyeahunderappreciatedhpquotes)
“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to...”
– Albus Dumbledore (via samantharoses)
“Closing libraries is child abuse.”
– Alan Bennett (via cabbageandking)
“The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which...”
– John Greenleaf Whittier (via pithia)
“In which case I pray that no F.B.I. agent, criminal profiler or (worst of all)...”
– The Perils of Literary Profiling - NYTimes.com (via housingworksbookstore)
“If I could put my brain in her body, the world would be mine for the taking.”
– Susan Elizabeth Phillips | via StaroftheSea (via quote-book)
“Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the...”
– C.S. Lewis (via mandabythesea) 