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Shel Silverstein’s Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out recited by Tori Amos (via uncleshelbysilverstein)
And here it was, the news, the latest instalment of the thriller and tingler, the great page-turner called the planet Earth. The world is a book we can’t put down.
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Martin Amis, The Pregnant Widow
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I’m two parts loner and one part joiner, so I feel at home delving into the epic struggles for togetherness.
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Sarah Vowell, The Partly Cloudy Patriot
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Books are a delightful society. If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you.
Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in.
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Ray Bradbury, Dandelion Wine
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