January 2012
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“As for my confused impressions they will never be written. There are blanks in...”
– Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys (via futurelies)
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November 2011
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“At the wheel of his slow car, Bob Arctor forgot theoretical matters and did a...”
– From ‘A Scanner Darkly’ by Philip K. Dick
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“Once a guy stood all day shaking bugs from his hair. The doctor told him there...”
– From ‘A Scanner Darkly’ by Philip K. Dick
August 2011
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“Pleasure need not be less keen because there will be centuries of springs to...”
– From ‘The children of men’ by P.D. James
July 2011
8 posts
30 Day Book Challenge- Day 2 - A Book You've Read...
There are so many books in the world I want to read, I don’t really re-read much. No matter how much I love the book in question, it always makes me feel like I’m wasting precious time when there are so, so many new things to be exploring- enough that I know I’ll never cover them all in my lifetime as it is.
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30 Day Book Challenge- Day 1 - The Best Book You...
The Sirens of Titan - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Easily tops the list as not just my favourite read of last year, but of all time. I discovered Vonnegut in my 3rd year of uni, and amongst reading for various essays and my dissertation, I made my way through every book of his our uni library had to offer. This was one of the very last, and in my eyes, one of his very best works.
The witty, satirical...
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April 2011
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“He was a loser, you know. Every high school has to have at least two; it’s like...”
– prologue of Christine, by Stephen King (via localgod)
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“Will had heard such stories on and off all his life, as most people undoubtedly...”
– from Christine, by Stephen King.
January 2011
3 posts
“They say some dreams are an alternative reality breaking through into our...”
– from Sergei Lukyanenko’s ‘The Last Watch’
“A car’s not the right place for showing off to a girl- the bed’s the...”
– from Sergei Lukyanenko’s ‘The Last Watch’.
December 2010
2 posts
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“Whenever I hear Edith Piaf sing ‘Non, je ne regrette rien’ - which...”
– from ‘Starter for Ten’ by David Nicholls
October 2010
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September 2010
7 posts
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“I do not claim that God is dead. I tell you He is alive and well but in no...”
– from Horns by Joe Hill
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“I see God now as an unimaginative writer of popular fictions, someone who builds...”
– from Horns, by Joe Hill
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“Jesus on His cross. So many have wept for Jesus on His cross. As if no-one else...”
– from Horns, by Joe Hill
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“God saves- but not now, and not here. His salvation is on layaway. Like all...”
– from Horns, by Joe Hill
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“That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may...”
– from The Call of Cthulhu, by H.P. Lovecraft
August 2010
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“Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl...”
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“‘I’m not going to tell you much more of the case, Doctor. You know a...”
– from ‘A Study in Scarlet’ by Sir. Arthur Conan Doyle
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“Screamingly sentient, dumbly delirious, only the gods that were can tell. A...”
– from H.P. Lovecraft’s ‘Nyarlathotep’.
July 2010
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“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the...”
– Aldous Huxley, ‘Brave New World’. (via stanshall)
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“From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes.”
– The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley
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“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all...”
– The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell, Aldous Huxley
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June 2010
5 posts
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“You couldn’t not like someone who liked the guitar.”
– Stephen King, The Stand (1978). (via ryanedwardmiller) (via localgod)
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May 2010
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“America I’ve given you all and now I’m nothing
I can’t stand...”
– Allen Ginsberg, ‘America’
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