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"The librarians I know are into, like, I dunno, tea and cozy mysteries, not breaking and entering." "Yeah, well. This is a different kind of library." from The Library at Mount Char.

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The first speaker may perhaps not know many librarians? - Ondatra iSkoolicus - [ 1 ] -

Well, I'll give him a break considering he was just approached in a bar by the librarian to engage in some breaking and entering. ;) - Katy_S - -

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“And, she thought uncomfortably, what would happen if people did not recognize you? Would you know who you were yourself? If tomorrow they started to call her Vanessa or Janet or Elizabeth, would she know how to be, how to feel like, Charlotte? Were you some particular person only because people recognized you as that?” http://i.imgur.com/htCurf...

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Charlotte Sometimes by Penelope Farmer - Crepuscoilare from iPhone - -

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Esattamente :) Ma la citazione in sé mi ha dato parecchio da pensare. - Crepuscoilare from iPhone - -

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At the party, Rob Partridge said to me, "You gave hope to other balding men." My new epitaph: "Co-wrote a couple of decent songs and went bald shamelessly."

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A Year With Swollen Appendices by Brian Eno - Crepuscoilare - -

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"The sasquatch ignored us. It looked like we'd narrowly escaped a hairy situation." Finn Fancy Necromancy, Randy Henderson

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"Never," said Kareen with passion, "ever suggest they don't have to pay you. What they pay for, they'll value. What they get for free, they'll take for granted, and then demand as a right. Hold them up for all the market will bear."

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Bujold, A Civil Campaign. - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

Word. - laura x - -

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"And that was that. You don't get to rewind your life like a tape and splice it back together, pretending it never knotted and tore, when it did and you know it did." - Signal To Noise by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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"Violet was a ship's biscuit: sturdy and in no need of coddling." Ticker, Lisa Mantchev

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"To oppose something is to maintain it."

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The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin - Crepuscoilare - -

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"The wealthy seem remarkably honest, for they are seldom found guilty of any crime." The Bullet-Catcher's Daughter, Rod Duncan

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"L’unica ossessione che vogliono tutti: l’ “amore”. Cosa crede, la gente, che basti innamorarsi per sentirsi completi? La platonica unione delle anime? Io la penso diversamente. Io credo che tu sia completo prima di cominciare. E l’amore ti spezza. Tu sei intero, e poi ti apri in due.”

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Roth, Philip. - LilaLaMarea from Android - -

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Ottimo suggerimento televisivo: non è l'affiatamento, è il fiato. Quello che non si cancella con il dentifricio :) - evres from Android - [ 1 ] -

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"She's as big as four-fifths of five-eights of fuck all, but she takes no bullshit from anyone." -- The Girl With All The Gifts by M. R. Carey

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"Routine, repetition, tedium, monotony, ephemeracy, inconsequence, abstraction, disorder, boredom, angst, ennui – these are the true hero’s enemies, and make no mistake, they are fearsome indeed. For they are real."

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The Pale King by David Foster Wallace - Crepuscoilare - -

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"Guard your covenant, my teacher warned during my private bar mitzvah lessons. I was not sure what he meant until he looked at me sternly, and warned me that if I touched my covenant and it became long and hard, it could lead to the greatest of all sins: the well-known sin."

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All Who Go Do Not Return: A Memoir by Shulem Deen - Eivind - -

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From the 1998 New York Times obituary, "Nicole Maxwell, a Bold Seeker of Medical Herbs, Dies at 92." http://www.nytimes.com/19...

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"While her work [collecting medicinal plants] was shunned by drug companies, Mrs. Maxwell, who made her home in Iquitos, Peru, became a heroine to a coterie of enthusiasts who would make pilgrimages to the compound where she held court to pay tribute, sometimes with unsettling results. Once when an avid photographer of exotic birds gushingly exclaimed that she must be very familiar with the birds of South America, Mrs. Maxwell acknowledged that she was, 'mainly by taste.'" - bentley - -

(I *almost* tagged John B.) :-) - bentley - -

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from "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie," by Muriel Spark:

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"... who made no evasions about their belief that God had planned for practically everybody before they were born a nasty surprise when they died. Later, when Sandy read John Calvin, she found that although popular conceptions of Calvinism were sometimes mistaken, in this particular there was no mistake, indeed it was but a mild understanding of the case, he having made it God's pleasure to implant in certain people an erroneous sense of joy and salvation, so that their surprise at the end might be the nastier." - bentley - -

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"I tried to explain this to our mother, but she hated long sentences and judged you on the first few words." --Nina Stibbe, Man at the Helm

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"I once thought—I only found this out when I grew old, understand—that there is no more terrible fate than to become the mentor. To be able to tell how, yet not to do. To send your protégé out, all bright and beautiful, to stand your fire . . . I think I've found a worse fate. To send your student out knowing damn well you haven't had a chance to teach enough. . . ."

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Brothers in Arms, Lois McMaster Bujold - Ondatra iSkoolicus - -

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“Is it splendid, or stupid, to take life seriously?”

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Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes - Crepuscoilare - -

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Some humans would do anything to see if it was possible to do it. If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, with a sign on it saying "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH", the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

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Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett - Crepuscoilare - -

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Aww <3 - Crepuscoilare - -

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Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

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Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman - Crepuscoilare - -

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"A common expression of bucket-list chasers is 'Live every day like it's your last.' But when you do that, you're trying to stop time, lock it in like a snow globe. I much prefer the idea of living every day like you're alive. Then, you're in the river of time; you're a story instead of a list." --"Kill Your Bucket List," by Edward Readicker-Henderson. Saturday Evening Post, May/June 2015.http://www.saturdayevenin...

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"Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry." --The Great Gatsby (1925), by F. Scott Fitzgerald.

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“I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story like the cream filling in an Oreo, should stick to comic strips and soap operas. What's it about? Every book worth a damn is about emotions and love and death and pain. It’s about words. It’s about a man dealing with life. Okay?”

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The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer - Crepuscoilare - -

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"Try not to panic when you see an expression like this." http://i.imgur.com/dejUyr...

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from How to be a Quantitative Ecologist: The 'A to R' of Green Mathematics and Statistics by Jason Matthiopoulos - Jenny H - -

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For me, it's not the concept that the expression represents, it's seeing a lot of new symbols that I have not previously seen in math books. - Jenny H - -

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“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”

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The Brooklyn Follies by Paul Auster - Crepuscoilare - -

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