A Life of Literature

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Saturday February 16th
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How to Library

stuckinabucket:

Realize library has all the books you want to read.

Realize that checking out All The Books, while possible, will not magically generate more time to read them.

Do it anyway.

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Thursday February 14th
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Thursday February 14th
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joshhutcherslut:

i love this book so god damn much

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Thursday February 14th
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kittylibrarian:

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

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Thursday February 14th
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fourlittlehobbits:

when it comes to reading i’m either reading 400 pages a day or taking a month to read 200 there is no in between

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Wednesday February 13th
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❤😍

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Wednesday February 13th
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Wednesday February 13th
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When I went to Morehouse as a freshman in 1944, my concern for racial and economic justice was already substantial. During my student days I read Henry David Thoreau’s essay ‘On Civil Disobedience’ for the first time. Here, in this courageous New Englander’s refusal to pay his taxes and his choice of jail rather than support a war that would spread slavery’s territory into Mexico, I made my first contact with the theory of nonviolent resistance. Fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system, I was so deeply moved that I reread the work several times.

I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person had been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest. The teachings of Thoreau came alive in our civil rights movement; indeed, they are more alive than ever before. Whether expressed in a sit-in at lunch counters, a freedom ride into Mississippi, a peaceful protest in Albany, Georgia, a bus boycott in Montgomery, Alabama, these are outgrowths of Thoreau’s insistence that evil must be resisted and that no moral man can patiently adjust to injustice.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. on how he came upon nonviolent protesting, The Autobiography of Martin Luther King Jr.

Wednesday February 13th
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Also for you, Lindsay. These books and movies will always get us to fan girl.

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Wednesday February 13th
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Lindsay, for you.

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Wednesday February 13th
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Wednesday February 13th
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c-a-l-i-f-o-r-n-i-a-mermaidd:

jenlaurences:

omg

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Wednesday February 13th
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6:100 “You must kill him. You have to kill him, Jacky, and her, too. Because a real artist must suffer. Because each man kills the thing he loves.” The Shining by Stephen King at times frightened me to the point that I had to stop reading at night. Stephen at one of his finest. #stephenking #theshining #books #literature #horror

Wednesday February 13th
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bookriot:

All 7 Harry Potter books are getting new 15th anniversary covers! Whaddya think?

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Wednesday February 13th
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