Thursday, June 19, 2014
Wednesday, June 11, 2014
John Green Talks About Reading
Reading, for him, "was like a way into empathy."
"Everything that you want to do in your life will be made easier and better and more fulfilling by reading."
"It expands the map of your world."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xopdxIgTH64&feature=youtu.be
Tuesday, June 10, 2014
Sunday, June 8, 2014
Van Gogh and Bookstores
Linda Piehl Woodard said this: But I have to admit that I had to double-check to see if he in fact did say this, and he did in a letter to his brother in 1877, but it was almost like an aside: (So often, in the past as well, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me up and reminded me that there are good things in the world.) And reading the letter was AMAZING...a lost art, indeed. Here is it in full, well the translation of it if anyone is interested, with the quote after 64: http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let133/letter.html
Wednesday, June 4, 2014
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