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Just because you read it in a magazine, Or see it on a TV screen Don’t make it factual.

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 Just because you read it in a magazine, Or see it on a TV screen Don’t make it factual.

Jan 29,2024

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#quotes #literature #life quotes #reading #lit #Spilled ink #poets on tumblr #writers on tumblr #writing inspiration #prose #Michael Jackson #thepersonalwords #author quotes
Cosplay
 Velma And Daphnie 2024

Jan 21,2024

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#reading #cosplay #Velma Dinkley #velma #velma scooby doo

I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

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 I am not well read, but when I do read, I read well.

Jan 02,2024

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Classic criticism has never paid any attention to the reader; for it, the writer is the only person in literature. We are

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 Classic criticism has never paid any attention to the reader; for it, the writer is the only person in literature. We are

Jul 08,2023

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#quotes #writing #literature #reading #criticism #barthes #Roland Barthes #The Death of the Author

Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

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 Please read my diary, look through my things and figure me out.

May 01,2023

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When I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I’m even pleased that I’m falling in just such

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 When I fall into the abyss, I go straight into it, head down and heels up, and I’m even pleased that I’m falling in just such

Feb 11,2023

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #prose #and still i rise #dostoevsky #q #the brothers karamazov #russian lit #forever favourite

In the morning, the sun is rosy, transparent, warm gold. And the air itself is a little rosy, all steeped in the sun’s

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 In the morning, the sun is rosy, transparent, warm gold. And the air itself is a little rosy, all steeped in the sun’s

Feb 08,2023

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Crying, soaking in the depths. Glad not to recognize myself anymore.

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 Crying, soaking in the depths. Glad not to recognize myself anymore.

Jan 28,2023

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#quotes #poetry #reading #lit #m #x #personal #q #sing me down into the dark #french lit #a matter of blue #jean michel maulpoix #nine days at sea as in a church

I am alone. Or, more like: alone with that other “me”.

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 I am alone. Or, more like: alone with that other “me”.

Jan 25,2023

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She looked down at the letter—and what was there behind her lowered blinds? What will she say—what will she do in the

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 She looked down at the letter—and what was there behind her lowered blinds? What will she say—what will she do in the

Jan 22,2023

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #prose #favourite #q #two solitudes that protect and touch #russian lit #yevgeny zamyatin #we

[She] saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom

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 [She] saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom

Jan 22,2023

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #prose #q #life everlasting #zora neale hurston #their eyes were watching god

There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too,

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 There is a gentrification that is happening to cities, and there is a gentrification that is happening to the emotions too,

Jan 18,2023

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #q #notes on the human condition #on culture #Olivia Laing #the lonely city

The greatest part of men seem agreed to convert reading into an amusement, and to reject every thing that requires

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 The greatest part of men seem agreed to convert reading into an amusement, and to reject every thing that requires

Jan 14,2023

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#quotes #reading #philosophy #focus #attention #David Hume #A Treatise of Human Nature

She knows the depths of sorrow. Nothing else could possible happen to her.

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 She knows the depths of sorrow. Nothing else could possible happen to her.

Dec 17,2022

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CHORUS: Oh, my children, my children! My poor father! My country! Every house a smouldering ruin, Every soul

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 CHORUS: Oh, my children, my children! My poor father! My country! Every house a smouldering ruin, Every soul

Dec 17,2022

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #q #Euripides #plays #hecabe #greek tragedy #medea and other plays

December drips through my nerves.

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 December drips through my nerves.

Dec 04,2022

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#quotes #poetry #reading #lit #m #x #the bone bare season #sing me down into the dark #december #q1 #charles wright #december journal #the world of the ten thousand things

I am in front of the mirror. And for the first time in my life —yes, exactly—for the first time in my life, I see

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 I am in front of the mirror. And for the first time in my life —yes, exactly—for the first time in my life, I see

Nov 30,2022

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #personal #prose #q #fragments of selfhood #russian lit #yevgeny zamyatin #we

They sat there in the fresh young darkness close together.

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 They sat there in the fresh young darkness close together.

Nov 26,2022

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #prose #favourite #q #FR #zora neale hurston #their eyes were watching god #nocturnes

Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.

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 Love is hard to find, hard to keep, and hard to forget.

Nov 19,2022

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#love #quotes #writing #quote #words #motivation #writers #life #text #thoughts #reading #book #inspiration #success #quotation

I’m laughing, but in my heart I weep with spite.

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 I’m laughing, but in my heart I weep with spite.

Nov 18,2022

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#quotes #poetry #reading #lit #m #x #anna akhmatova #q #sing me down into the dark #russian lit #under the dark roof of the threshing shed its hot

At home, I read more than anything. I wanted to deaden all that was constantly boiling inside me with external sensations.

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 At home, I read more than anything. I wanted to deaden all that was constantly boiling inside me with external sensations.

Nov 08,2022

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#quotes #books #reading #philosophy #notes from underground #Fyodor Dostoyevsky #boredom #actions

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my will-power? The Idea of a life gets in the way of my life.

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 I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my will-power? The Idea of a life gets in the way of my life.

Oct 10,2022

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #Sylvia Plath #The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath #q #fragments of selfhood

There’s no joining past to present — I saw that then. My old, whole self was gone for good.

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 There’s no joining past to present — I saw that then. My old, whole self was gone for good.

Jun 30,2022

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #personal #prose #q #fragments of selfhood #contemporary lit #michelle de kretser #scary monsters

We can neither escape personal responsibility by imagining that our dependence upon others determines how we are to act,

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 We can neither escape personal responsibility by imagining that our dependence upon others determines how we are to act,

May 14,2022

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#quotes #reading #lit #m #x #q #thomas baldwin