writersnoonereads:

“A revolution to emancipate the individual must necessarily regard tradition, the control of the present by the past, as its enemy; if the human individual is to be really free, then time must also be individualized into a succession of immediate moments. The kind of society, therefore, which it…

murakamistuff:

A lot of Murakami’s work revolves around love and sex related topics so I’m pretty sure some of you guys might have wondered about his wife, what she does, what she looks like, how she inspired him etc. Unfortunately it’s pretty difficult or rather close to impossible to find information on Yoko…

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millionsmillions:

Don’t miss the two-part interview between Stephen Colbert and Maurice Sendak.

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bookmania:

“Literature, real literature, must not be gulped down like some potion which may be good for the heart or good for the brain—the brain, that stomach of the soul. Literature must be taken and broken to bits, pulled apart, squashed—then its lovely reek will be smelt in the hollow of the palm, it will be munched and rolled upon the tongue with relish; then, and only then, its rare flavor will be appreciated at its true worth and the broken and crushed parts will again come together in your mind and disclose the beauty of a unity to which you have contributed something of your own blood.” ― Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Russian Literature