A Life of Literature

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Friday February 22nd
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Submission courtesy of anon

Thursday February 21st
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Thursday February 21st
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Wednesday February 20th
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I guess I’m everything they say I am, all right. I haven’t any friends. That’s supposed to prove I’m abnormal. But everyone I know is either shouting or dancing around like wild or beating up one another. Do you notice how people hurt each other nowadays?"

Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via millionen)

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Tuesday February 19th
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This beautiful fresco adorns the exterior of the La Bibliotèque De La Cité (Library of the City) in Lyon, France.

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Tuesday February 19th
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Tuesday February 19th
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Men that read…

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Tuesday February 19th
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Fame After Death: Five writers who won their fame posthumously.

Most of Franz Kafka’s work was unpublished by the time he died of starvation/tuberculosis in 1924.

Only seven of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published during her lifetime.

John Kennedy Toole killed himself in 1969. His mother found the manuscript for A Confederacy of Dunces after his death. Though rejected in his lifetime, it won the Pulitzer Prize in 1981.

Though she received some recognition during her life, most of Sylvia Plath’s fame arrived after death. Her most famous publication, The Bell Jar, was published one month before she committed suicide. Her Collected Poems won the Pulitzer in 1982.

Though Edgar Allan Poe published a few stories in his lifetime, he normally was not paid for him. “The Raven” sold for $9.

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Tuesday February 19th
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Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others. A community that is opinion-ridden, even when those opinions are in themselves noble, is likely to put its creative minds into some sort of prison."

W. B. Yeats, from “An Irish National Theatre” in The Irish Dramatic Movement (via litverve)

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Monday February 18th
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Monday February 18th
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Monday February 18th
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Chris Court

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Monday February 18th
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Monday February 18th
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sneadly:

WHY ARE BOOKS NOT WATERPROOF

I WANT TO READ IN THE SHOWER

AND TO PROTECT MY BOOKS FROM MY TEARS

IT’S 2012 WHY ARE BOOKS NOT WATERPROOF.

IT’S 2013 WHY ARE BOOKS NOT WATERPROOF OBAMA FIX THIS.

I’m working on it

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Monday February 18th
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