The Mellifluous Bookshelf

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Tue, 21 May 2013 21:07:32 -0400

“He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human...

Mon, 20 May 2013 21:31:23 -0400

“He never seemed to grasp the immense mutability of human nature, nor to appreciate that behind every nondescript face lay a wild and unique hinterland like his own.”

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Mon, 20 May 2013 21:26:34 -0400

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"Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it...."

Mon, 13 May 2013 14:12:52 -0400

“Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You’ll absorb it.
Then write. If it’s good, you’ll find out. If it’s not, throw it out of the window.”

- William Faulkner

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Mon, 13 May 2013 14:07:20 -0400

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Sat, 11 May 2013 12:04:33 -0400

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Sat, 11 May 2013 12:03:20 -0400

"These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these..."

Fri, 10 May 2013 22:01:48 -0400

“These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire—I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Love of the Last Tycoon

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Thu, 09 May 2013 22:21:43 -0400

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Sun, 05 May 2013 13:05:31 -0400

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Sun, 05 May 2013 13:02:57 -0400

“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive,...

Sun, 05 May 2013 12:02:00 -0400

“Whatever happens to your body, your soul will survive, untouched…”