“To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul - would you understand why that's much harder?”
- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.
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- Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead.
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22 Winnie-the-Pooh Quotes That Make Today A Better Day
In case you didn’t know, Winnie-the-Pooh has been enchanting the minds and hearts of children and adults alike for close to 100 years.
For me, there is something so pure and innocent yet profound and pertinent about his one-liners.
It’s as if the purity of a young child is speaking the words of a wise elder through an adorable teddy bear’s body.
It’s beautiful.
So, let’s indulge in 22 quotes that make today a better day.
#aamilne
In case you didn’t know, Winnie-the-Pooh has been enchanting the minds and hearts of children and adults alike for close to 100 years.
For me, there is something so pure and innocent yet profound and pertinent about his one-liners.
It’s as if the purity of a young child is speaking the words of a wise elder through an adorable teddy bear’s body.
It’s beautiful.
So, let’s indulge in 22 quotes that make today a better day.
#aamilne
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“But I am I. And I won't subordinate my taste to the unanimous judgment of mankind”
- Jack London, Martin Eden.
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- Jack London, Martin Eden.
Translation
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Al grew tense over the wheel. A little rattle had developed in the engine. He speeded up and the rattle increased. He retarded his spark and listened, and then he speeded up for a moment and listened. The rattle increased to a metallic pounding. Al blew his horn and pulled the car to the side of the road. Ahead the truck pulled up and then backed slowly. Three cars raced by, westward, and each one blew its horn and the last driver leaned out and yelled, "Where the hell ya think you're stoppin'?"
Tom backed the truck close, and then he got out and walked to the touring car. From the back of the loaded truck heads looked down. Al retarded his spark and listened to his idling motor. Tom asked, "What's a matter, Al?"
Al speeded the motor. "Listen to her." The rattling pound was louder now
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath.
Translation
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Tom backed the truck close, and then he got out and walked to the touring car. From the back of the loaded truck heads looked down. Al retarded his spark and listened to his idling motor. Tom asked, "What's a matter, Al?"
Al speeded the motor. "Listen to her." The rattling pound was louder now
- John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath.
Translation
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“It's not the sort of night for bed, anyhow.”
- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows.
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- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows.
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“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion.”
- William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair.
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- William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair.
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Ernest Hemingway's Remarkable Life in Photos
There's so much we didn't know about one of the greatest American novelists.
Whether you've read one of his novels or have simply heard something described as "Hemingway-esque," chances are you're familiar with the direct prose the influential author adopted in the 1920s. It shouldn't come as a huge surprise that Hemingway's personal life is just as interesting as what lives on his pages. Now, more than 50 years after his death, take a look back at rare photographs of the American writer's life.
#ernesthemingway
There's so much we didn't know about one of the greatest American novelists.
Whether you've read one of his novels or have simply heard something described as "Hemingway-esque," chances are you're familiar with the direct prose the influential author adopted in the 1920s. It shouldn't come as a huge surprise that Hemingway's personal life is just as interesting as what lives on his pages. Now, more than 50 years after his death, take a look back at rare photographs of the American writer's life.
#ernesthemingway
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“Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.”
- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own.
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- Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own.
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“But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.”
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince.
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- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince.
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“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.”
- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.
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- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations.
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“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
- Frank Herbert, Dune.
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- Frank Herbert, Dune.
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“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
- William Butler Yeats,, The Land of Heart's Desire.
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For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
- William Butler Yeats,, The Land of Heart's Desire.
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“I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you... We'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they wont' just be able to take one, they'll have to take two, one of you and one of me, we'll be joined so tight...”
- Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials.
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- Philip Pullman, His Dark Materials.
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“I think you are wrong to want a heart. It makes most people unhappy. If you only knew it, you are in luck not to have a heart.”
- Lyman Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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- Lyman Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is hard business. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
- Rudyard Kipling.
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- Rudyard Kipling.
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“Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life - and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.”
- Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing.
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- Dean Koontz, Fear Nothing.
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“Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.”
- Isaac Asimov.
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- Isaac Asimov.
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“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
- Oscar Wilde.
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- Oscar Wilde.
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How A Teenage Girl Became the Mother of Horror
Born on a dark and stormy night, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus is a true masterpiece of terror that began as a fireside ghost story and grew into a worldwide phenomenon.
The story took shape during the year without a summer, as 1816 came to be known. The 1815 eruption of the Mount Tambora volcano on the island of Sumbawa had released vast amounts ash, rock, and sulfuric dust into the air, which dramatically lowered temperatures across many areas of the globe the following year.
The outdoor activities they had been eagerly anticipating were washed out by the constant torrential cloudbursts in Switzerland that year. “It proved a wet, ungenial summer,” Mary wrote years later, “and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.”
Lord Byron suggested that each member of the party write a horror story. Out of this parlor game came a new kind of tale, Mary Shelley’s terrifying novel, Frankenstein.
#maryshelley
Born on a dark and stormy night, Frankenstein; or, the Modern Prometheus is a true masterpiece of terror that began as a fireside ghost story and grew into a worldwide phenomenon.
The story took shape during the year without a summer, as 1816 came to be known. The 1815 eruption of the Mount Tambora volcano on the island of Sumbawa had released vast amounts ash, rock, and sulfuric dust into the air, which dramatically lowered temperatures across many areas of the globe the following year.
The outdoor activities they had been eagerly anticipating were washed out by the constant torrential cloudbursts in Switzerland that year. “It proved a wet, ungenial summer,” Mary wrote years later, “and incessant rain often confined us for days to the house.”
Lord Byron suggested that each member of the party write a horror story. Out of this parlor game came a new kind of tale, Mary Shelley’s terrifying novel, Frankenstein.
#maryshelley
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