Books are good.
illustrated by Mopka :: via redbubble.com
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The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore – lovely modern homage to a bygone era of books, from Moonbot Studios, dubbed “Pixar for the iPad age.” Best thing since Spike Jonze and Olympia LeTan’s cut-paper animated love story for book-lovers. (via)
You ought never to take your little brother’s ‘chewing-gum’ away from him by main force; it is better to rope him in with the promise of the first two dollars and a half you find floating down the river on a grindstone. In the artless simplicity natural to this time of life, he will regard it as a perfectly fair transaction. In all ages of the world this eminently plausible fiction has lured the obtuse infant to financial ruin and disaster.”
Mark Twain’s Advice to Little Girls
(via 7 Obscure Children’s Books by Authors of Adult Literature | Brain Pickings)
Série de marca-páginas inspirados em Moby Dick, do designer Pietari Posti
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"And maybe the measure of our reading should therefore be, not the number of books we’ve read, but the state in which they leave us. What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we do after reading; whether the street and the clouds and the existence of others mean anything to us; whether reading makes us, physically, more alive."
— Gabriel Zaid (via venebelle)
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"Books are frozen voices, in the same way that musical scores are frozen music. The score is a way of transmitting the music to someone who can play it, releasing it into the air where it can once more be heard. And the black alphabet marks on the page represent words that were once spoken, if only in the writer’s head. They lie there inert until a reader comes along and transforms the letters into living sounds. The reader is the musician of the book: each reader may read the same text, just as each violinist plays the same piece, but each interpretation is different."
— Margaret Atwood (via slekes)
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