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Ahem.

I will say this louder for the people in the back. Seems to have gotten lost in the mess that was today.

READING IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL.

READING IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL.

READING IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL.

READING IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL.

READING IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL.

READING IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL.

READING IS INHERENTLY POLITICAL.

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yes. 1000% yes.

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reading the news about NaNoWriMo’s stance on AI be like

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bring back the standalone

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big fan of bookshops that stamp their books at the register for whatever I’m buying, it’s contributing to my book collecting craze

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nothing beats that feeling of walking into a bookshop and seeing the book that you’ve been searching for and haven’t been able to find anywhere else 🥰

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“You came and I was longing for you. You cooled a heart that burned with desire”

Sappho

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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking”

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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“He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking”

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

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“Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done”

Sappho

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“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent”

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie

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“‘I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look, or the words, which laid the foundation [of my love] … I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun’”

- Mr. Darcy to Elizabeth

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

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we’re poets… of course you’ll end up in one of our poems (so beware :))

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we’re poets, sudden inspiration in the dead of night is an occupational hazard

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we’re poets, of course we’re dramatic little gremlins

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okay i need all the work dudes to stop using my favorite coffee shops as their personal offices so i can actually enjoy the aesthetic

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we’re writers— of course we’ve got crippling self-doubt and the tendency to compare our work to everyone else