"The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience."
Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird (via curiositycounts)
"In the first few seconds an aching sadness wrenched his heart, but it soon gave way to a feeling of sweet disquiet, the excitement of gypsy wanderlust."
Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (via liquidnight)
Okay, I know different people I follow/follow me have reblogged pics of libraries and bookshelves and stuff before. So I thought I would share some of the old books that I own. I’ve been collecting them here and there since I was a kid. None are valuable or expensive (most were under $10); a lot of them are bibles or religious texts because that type of book was very common so a lot of them are still around today. I have about fifteen total, dating from the mid-1800s to early 1900s.
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Top row, left to right:
1. Assorted books in their usual home on the shelf
2. Mini Dante’s Inferno, split in two parts
3. Interior and so you can see how small they are
Middle row, left to right:
1. Virgil’s Aeneid. Nearly got in a fistfight with a coworker over this one, back when I worked in a grocery store. People donated books and we sold them for fifty cents. He wanted this one. I glared at him and ran over there and snatched it as quickly as I could. It’s just so beautiful.
2. Inside cover of the Aeneid.
3. Collected poems by Wordsworth
Bottom row, left to right:
1. Interior of the Wordsworth book
2. A small bible from the Civil War era
3. Left: a Danish bible; right: a New Testament
"A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can’t act if you don’t know."
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury (via effyeahyoungadultlit)
If someone is going around shooting people in the street, I doubt anyone would be so apathetic as to not move.
(via tinysprout)Six Amazon Kindle Screensavers based classic book covers and videogames.
Each cover is 600X800 and ready to use.
From Thirty Days of Videogames
"Every time I read ‘Pride and Prejudice,’ I want to dig her up and hit her over the skull with her own shin-bone."
Mark Twain on Jane Austen. We just learned he said this, and now we want to dig him up and make him be our best friend. (via washingtonpoststyle)
Writer Remains Literary Voice of Knockemstiff
The author Donald Ray Pollock grew up in Knockemstiff, Ohio, and the small village continues to influence his work.
Photograph © Greg Sailor for The New York Times
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Just what do you think you’re doing, Dave?
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Marcel Proust’s notebook, n.d. (source)
(source: proustitute; part of Proust’s birthday)
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F. Scott Fitzgerald’s briefcase
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