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booklover · 3 months

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“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.”

― Susan Sontag, Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

#susan sontag #literary birthday

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nortonliterature · 1 year

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In honor of Jane Austen's birthday today, what's your most controversial opinion about her books? Do you hate Mr. Darcy? Is there a movie that's better than the book? Let the people hear it!!

#Jane Austen #Women writers #literary birthday #today in literary history #happy birthday #British Literature #English literature #Brit Lit #English Lit #English majors #women in literature #Persuasion #Northanger Abbey #Emma #Mansfield Park #Pride and Prejudice #Sense and Sensibility

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botanautical · 6 months

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THE DARK ERA - 黒の時代

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#bungou stray dogs #bungo stray dogs #bsd #bsd fanart #bsd oda #bsd odasaku #osamu dazai and the dark era #a little dark era piece inspired by wanderer above the sea of fog by caspar david friedrich #i was intending to do a nice gentle illustration in honour of oda but it has ended up very dramatic as often happens asdffdgsd #and then i thought it would look quite cool as a book/movie cover so i added the text and made a nice mock-up!#i'm always keen to do artwork that has literary influence on the characters' birthdays so i might try to do another small little drawing #but i think i just wanted to represent how cool he is as a character! and how atmospheric and moving this arc is #i think it's the point which heightened my interest in the series - oda is so interesting and lovely #he is so fundamental to so much of the narrative too - it's quite fascinating #...also dazai is technically here but i won't tag him asdfgfdg #botanautical #tw blood

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peglarpapers · 6 months

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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Letter II // Francis Crozier to James Clark Ross, Letter 172 (July 12th 1845), May We Be Spared To Meet On Earth

#frankenstein #franklin expedition #polar history #francis crozier #happy 227th birthday bestie. as a present here are the literary parallels evoked by your no doubt horrible fate

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snazzyscarf · 4 months

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me and the simurgh are HOW old today??? we shoulda been at the cluuubb!!!!

initial concept drawing:

#scarf.txt #my art #wormblr #parahumans #the simurgh #sharing a birthday with the simurgh is one of the greatest things to happen to m-[IS IRREVERSIBLLY PUT ON A PATH OF LITERARY DEMISE]

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thelastrenaissance · 7 months

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Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and writer. Was born on October 16, 1854.

"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."

Oscar Wilde

#birthday #classic literature #british literature #literary quotes #books #literature quotes #reading #books and reading #quotes #booklr #bookish #booksbooksbooks #prose #literature #writing #oscar wilde

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lovingsylvia · 6 months

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HAPPY 91st BIRTHDAY, my dearest Sylvia! ♥ RIP!

(27 October 1932, Boston, USA – 11 February 1963, London, UK)

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"Not to be sentimental, as I sound, but why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?"

--The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, diary entry no. 40, 1951

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Photo: Sylvia Plath reading "Mussel Hunter at Rock Harbor" in The New Yorker, August 1958, Northampton, Massachusetts

via https://www.librarything.com/profile/SylviaPlathLibrary

#sylvia plath #sylviaplath #the unabridged journals of sylvia plath #sylvia plath quotes #quotes #birthday #happy birthday #otd #on this day #literary quotes #1951 #1932 #1963

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thirdsonofeve · 7 months

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Tuco is getting so bullied at the family reunion he's just a little guy i get why he is the way he is ily little chihuahua man genuinely same<3

#i need a brba/bcs short that's just the salamanca family reunion for Hector's 60s birthday #mainly bc seeing the moncadas pretend to be ~20 would be really fucking funny #bottom left pic is tuco's worse nightmare he's gonna get called primito by his bby cousins who are literary a head taller than him #i get that the inclusion of nacho here implies that he's also tagging along to the family party (yes he is in fact 4 of his bfs are #salamancas so he deserves a spot at the table) but it is bc he's a standard measurement unit #and tuco is 1 nachito tall #tuco salamanca #lalo salamanca #marco salamanca #leonel salamanca #salamanca twins #salamanca family

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mothprincess · 1 year

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napowrimo day 1 using @mercuriian‘s prompts (x): ‘lambskin’

#napowrimo #poets on tumblr #poetry #serena crane #the birthday coat #mercuriian #the orangery literary society #my writing

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asoftershipwrecked · 1 year

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happy birthday, mk!

#softer birthday #mary kate wiles #mk wiles #10 literary bounds #beth march bound #shipwrecked comedy #asoftershipwrecked #layla's remix #lumi's remix #a softer shipwrecked original #anne of green gables #anne shirley #dear old world

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theliterarymess · 6 months

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Absolutely loved my ARC so you know I had to get the hardcover to match my Legends & Lattes!

#shazzy’s literary mess #booklr #Travis Baldree #legends and lattes #bookshops and bonedust #fr the shadow of my sisters birthday balloon

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booklover · 8 months

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Ilya Milstein

The World of Agatha Christie

#literary birthday #agatha christie #illustration #writers #books

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madeline-kahn · 1 year

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@pscentral anniversary event: get to know the members

"When I was younger, I couldn't bear all the waiting around, but now that's my favourite part. It's lovely. Some days, you come in, you have a lot to do, and some days, you can just walk past the camera, make jokes, be the life and soul of the party. I love all the anecdotes, the little jokes."

Happy birthday, Sir Tom Courtenay! (February 25, 1937)