Mittens

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Mittens’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (705)
currently-reading‎ (0)
read‎ (574)
folkish‎ (51)
poetry‎ (51)
soda-pop-lit‎ (47)

october-chills‎ (35)
gothic-delights‎ (30)
favorites‎ (25)
slog‎ (25)
introvert-adjacent‎ (23)
coquettish-fans‎ (19)

winter-fireside‎ (17)
short-stories-vignettes‎ (12)
sus-beginnings‎ (8)
lock-the-doors‎ (7)
multi-narrative‎ (7)
nature‎ (3)

essays‎ (2)
excellent-ending‎ (2)
mysteries‎ (2)
current-events‎ (1)
non-human‎ (1)
survival‎ (1)

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Mittens’s Quotes

“I love deadlines. I love the whooshing noise they make as they go by.”
― Douglas Adams, The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time

tags: deadlines, humor, humour, work, writing

32146 likes

“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
― Dorothy Parker

tags: epitaph, humor, the-new-yorker

850 likes

“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.”
― Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World, Or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher, Residing in London, to His Friends in the Country, by Dr. Goldsmith

tags: misattributed-to-confucius, success

2233 likes

“Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.”
― Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary

1760 likes

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul

135508 likes

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