In fact there was only one species on the planet more intelligent than dolphins, and they spent a lot of their time in behavioral research laboratories running round inside wheels and conducting frighteningly elegant and subtle experiments on man. The fact that once again man completely misunderstood this relationship was entirely according to these creatures’ plans.
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Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
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Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
30 Day Book Challenge
Day Eight: Favorite Book Quotes
Pretty much every line Oscar Wilde has ever written.
Also:
“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.”
- James Joyce
The first time I read those words I swear I shivered. He has the most amazing way with words.
What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?
I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room.
In her life, on the farm and in the house, there was no place for tears. Tears were a luxury, like flowers would be in the fields where the mangolds grew, or fresh whitewash in the scullery.
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William Trevor, The Ballroom of Romance
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On Sundays, or on Mondays if he couldn’t make it and often he couldn’t, Sunday being his busy day, Canon O’Connell arrived at the farm in order to hold a private service with Bridie’s father, who couldn’t get about anymore, having had a leg amputated after gangrene set in.
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William Trevor, The Ballroom of Romance
First line.
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So many books, so little time.
If you take a book with you on a journey, an odd thing happens: The book begins collecting your memories. And forever after you have only to open that book to be back where you first read it. It will all come into your mind with the very first words: the sights you saw in that place, what it smelled like, the ice cream you ate while you were reading it…yes, books are like flypaper— memories cling to the printed page better than anything else.
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Cornelia Funke, Inkheart (via libraryland)
Again, this is so true.
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