Life in Letters

“I was made for another planet altogether. I mistook the way.”
— Simone de Beauvoir (via mirroir)

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“Reading is the way out of ignorance.”
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Ron Mueck: Couple Under an Umbrella (2013)

amandaonwriting: Literary Birthday - 22 May Happy Birthday, Arthur Conan Doyle, born 22 May 1859, died 7 July 1930 10 Quotes It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own. Anything is better than stagnation. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify. Where there is no imagination there is no horror. The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods. Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician and author who is best known for his Sherlock Holmes novels. He was a prolific writer who wrote fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels. by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write

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Literary Birthday - 22 May

Happy Birthday, Arthur Conan Doyle, born 22 May 1859, died 7 July 1930

10 Quotes

  1. It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
  2. Anything is better than stagnation.
  3. When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
  4. My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
  5. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
  6. I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children.
  7. Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
  8. As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify.
  9. Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
  10. The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.

Arthur Conan Doyle was a Scottish physician and author who is best known for his Sherlock Holmes novels. He was a prolific writer who wrote fantasy and science fiction stories, plays, romances, poetry, non-fiction, and historical novels.

by Amanda Patterson for Writers Write

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“People disappear when they die. Their voice, their laughter, the warmth of their breath. Their flesh. Eventually their bones. All living memory of them ceases. This is both dreadful and natural. Yet for some there is an exception to this annihilation. For in the books they write they continue to exist. We can rediscover them. Their humor, their tone of voice, their moods. Through the written word they can anger you or make you happy. They can comfort you. They can perplex you. They can alter you. All this, even though they are dead. Like flies in amber, like corpses frozen in the ice, that which according to the laws of nature should pass away is, by the miracle of ink on paper, preserved. It is a kind of magic…. Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is their soul stirred by the feather touch of another mind reading theirs? I do hope so.”
— Diane Setterfield.  The Thirteenth Tale.  Obscure profound quote of the day.  Sweet, sweet eloquence.  (via deaddovedonoteat53)

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“Literature is the mind’s greatest drug.”
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I rather enjoy number 3, being as I’m in college because I actually want to learn and will probably be in debt 4ever over it. Whatevz, life is short.

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“It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.”
— Sylvia Plath (via notsoinnocentyouth)

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stfueverything: Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions… for safety on the streets…. for child care, for social welfare… for rape crisis centers, women’s refuges, reforms in the law.  If someone says, “Oh, I’m not a feminist,” I ask, “Why? What’s your problem?” -Dale Spender

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Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions… for safety on the streets…. for child care, for social welfare… for rape crisis centers, women’s refuges, reforms in the law. 

If someone says, “Oh, I’m not a feminist,” I ask, “Why? What’s your problem?”

-Dale Spender

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