Wordshore

Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think.

Elbert Hubbard

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South Dakota

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Elk Rapids by lomeranger on Flickr.

Elk Rapids, Indiana.

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The making of an American begins at the point where he himself rejects all other ties, any other history, and himself adopts the vesture of his adopted land.

James Baldwin

1 year ago

so it is winter after all by placeinsun on Flickr.

Vermont, again in the snow.

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Love on Flickr.

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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

Edith Sitwell

1 year ago

Sunset over the Adirondacks by SamMcGuire on Flickr.

Burlington, Vermont.

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The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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Trapp cabin by LucienTj on Flickr.

Vermont winter cabin.

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Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.

John Ruskin

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the long shadow hour by placeinsun on Flickr.

Addison, Vermont.

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Roger Bacon held that three classes of substance were capable of magic: the herbal, the mineral, and the verbal. With their leaves of fiber, their inks of copperas and soot, and their words, books are an amalgam of the three.

Matthew Battles, from Library: An Unquiet History

1 year ago

Los Angeles view by Lucas Janin on Flickr.

Possibly my favorite place in the USA (slightly odd, perhaps, that it is an artificial view, albeit a beautiful one).

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Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

Anonymous

1 year ago