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Giveaw@y: We’re giving away these 13 vintage paperback classics! Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 5 July 2025. Good luck!

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Giveaw@y: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! Won’t these look lovely on your shelf? =) Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 2 November 2023. Good luck!

Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaw@ys. For full rules to all of our giveaw@ys, click here

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“Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy.”

— The Count of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas (b. 24 July 1802)

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me on the couch looking at the pouring rain: :3

5 minutes later

me: OH FUCK UPSTAIRS WINDOWS ARE OPEN

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“Any idiot can face a crisis; it’s this day-to-day living that wears you out.”

— Anton Chekhov (b. 29 January 1860)

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Giveaw@y: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =)  Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 26 February 2023. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaw@ys. For full rules to all of our giveaw@ys, click here.

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Eating baked beans. Feeling very english.

#blessed #soenglish!

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“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don’t like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don’t know why we are sad, so we say we aren’t sad but we really are.”

— The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Mark Haddon (b. 26 September 1962)

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When will I ever learn not to go to my parents for emotional support when they will only provide me with monetary support

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“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It’s as simple as that.”

— Tove Jansson (b. 9 August 1914)

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“Books to the ceiling, books to the sky. My pile of books are a mile high. How I love them! How I need them! I’ll have a long beard by the time I read them.”

— Arnold Lobel (1933-1987) American author, illustrator

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Giveaway: We’re giving away 12 vintage paperback classics! Won’t they look lovely on your shelf? =) I know… there are only 11 pictured here. You’ll get to choose the 12th from hundreds in my giveaway stack.  Enter to win these classics by: 1) following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblogging this post. We will choose a random winner on 26 June. Good luck! Follow our IG account to be eligible for our IG giveaways. For full rules to all of our giveaways, click here.

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“Goodnight stars, goodnight air, goodnight noises everywhere.”

— Goodnight Moon, Margaret Wise Brown (b. 23 May 1910)

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Thank the gods above it's Eurovision week. I cannot wait to fight against my own countrymen, to fight against my fellow Europeans, to fight against the world...

Only to unionize with everyone against the UK as nature intended.

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“It’s time to start living the life you’ve imagined.”

— Henry James (b. 15 April 1843)

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Just casually having a convo with my new fav band over insta dms this is fine :')