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#American Literature
bsd-bibliophile · 20 hours
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There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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feral-ballad · 2 months
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Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “Idea”
[Text ID: “I will enjoy this life. I will open it like a peach in season, suck the juice from every finger, run my tongue over my chin. I will not worry about clichés or uninvited guests peering in my windows. I will love and be loved. Save and be saved a thousand times. I will let the want into my body, bless the heat under my skin. My life, I will not waste it. I will enjoy this life.”]
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flowerytale · 1 year
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Janet Fitch, from White Oleander
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newvision · 2 years
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— Bob Dylan from When the Deal Goes Down on Modern Times (2006)
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theoptia · 1 year
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Marie Howe, from Magdalene: Poems; "The Teacher"
Text ID: So, I thought I had to become more than / I was, more than I'd been. / but that wasn't it. It seemed rather that / something had to go. Something had to / be let go of.
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daweyt · 3 months
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Louise Glück, from “Poems: 1962-2012; Persephone The Wanderer", published c. 2012.
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megairea · 4 months
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I think houses live their own lives along a time-stream that’s different from the ones upon which their owners float, one that’s slower. In a house, especially an old one, the past is closer.
Stephen King, Bag of Bones, 1998
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Angie Hoffmeister’s illustration for Shirley Jackson’s The Haunting of Hill House.
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"Some long-forgot, enchanted, strange, Sweet garden of a thousand years ago,"
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay, from "Interim"
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feral-ballad · 2 months
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Kate Baer, from And Yet: Poems; “40”
[Text ID: “because sometimes it is easier to / write yourself out of the play / than to face another breakfast.”]
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flowerytale · 1 year
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James Baldwin, from Giovanni’s Room
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juneacademia · 2 months
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“Most of us … are slaves of longing.”
— Bell Hooks, Communion
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llovelymoonn · 1 month
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alice hoffman practical magic
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theoptia · 1 year
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Marie Howe, from Magdalene: Poems; "The Teacher"
Text ID: Can we love without greed? Without wanting to be first?
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lunamonchtuna · 2 years
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— Amal El-Mohtar, from This Is How You Lose the Time War (via lunamonchtuna)
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lilithsorchid · 2 years
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The Secret History by Donna Tartt
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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
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