Miercuri, Ianuarie 6th, 2010
Children don’t read to find their identity, to free themselves from guilt, to quench the thirst for rebellion or to get rid of alienation. They have no use for psychology…
They still believe in God, the family, angels, devils, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other such obsolete stuff… When a book is boring, they yawn openly. They don’t expect their writer to redeem humanity, but leave to adults such childish illusions.
Isaac Bashevis
Marti, Noiembrie 24th, 2009
Roads go ever ever on,
Over rock and under tree,
By caves where never sun has shone,
By streams that never find the sea:
Over snow by winter sown,
And through the merry flowers of June,
Over grass and over stone,
And under mountains in the moon.
Roads go ever ever on
Under cloud and under star,
Yet feet that wandering have gone
Turn at last to home afar,
Eyes that fire and sword have seen
And horror in the halls of stone
Look at last on meadows green
And trees and hills they long have known.
Tolkien
Joi, Noiembrie 19th, 2009
“There is no worse sound in the world than someone who cannot play the violin but insists on doing so anyway.”
Lemony Snicket
Daca am vorbi de acordeon, as fi complet de acord. Nu e nimic mai ingrozitor decat un acordeon in tramvai, la 10-11 dimineata, cand ai ochii umflati de somn si incerci sa citesti un capitol incredibil de abramburit.
Joi, Noiembrie 19th, 2009
“Entertaining a notion, like entertaining a baby cousin or entertaining a pack of hyenas, is a dangerous thing to refuse to do. If you refuse to entertain a baby cousin, the baby cousin may get bored and entertain itself by wandering off and falling down a well. If you refuse to entertain a pack of hyenas, they may become restless and entertain themselves by devouring you. But if you refuse to entertain a notion – which is just a fancy way of saying that you refuse to think about a certain idea – you have to be much braver than someone who is merely facing some blood-thirsty animals, or some parents who are upset to find their little darling at the bottom of a well, because nobody knows what an idea will do when it goes off to entertain itself.”
Lemony Snicket
Duminica, Noiembrie 15th, 2009
“A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled”, describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn’t hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.”
Lemony Snicket
Joi, Noiembrie 12th, 2009
“All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.”
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
“Well-read people are less likely to be criminals.”
“Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.”
“Wicked people never have time for reading. It’s one of the reasons for their wickedness.”
“If writers wrote as carelessly as some people talk, then adhasdh asdglaseuyt[bn[ pasdlgkhasdfasdf.”
“A good library will never be too neat or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.”
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.”