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Curiosity is insubordination in its purest form.
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What Would Classic Literary Characters Leave as Their Away Messages? →
Literature + 1990s pop culture = giggles.
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Mankind, I suppose, is designed to run on—to be motivated by—temptation. If progress is a virtue then this is our greatest gift. (For what is curiosity if not intellectual temptation? And what progress is there without curiosity?)
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Teach the Books, Touch the Heart →
“In my 14 years of teaching in a New York City public middle school, I’ve taught kids with incarcerated parents, abusive parents, neglectful parents; kids who are parents themselves; kids who are homeless or who live in crowded apartments in violent neighborhoods; kids who grew up in developing countries. They understand, more than I ever will, the novel’s terrible logic — the giving way of dreams to fate.”
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Perhaps they were right in putting love into books… Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
– William Faulkner (via calloway)(via rushofnostalgia)
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Time: All-Time Best 100 Non-Fiction Books →
Speaking of books…
