Human interaction is overrated. Why talk to real people when you can sit quietly and read to your heart’s content? Sure, real people can talk back and you can have conversations, but there are tons of conversations in books that you don’t even have to be part of. Reading is so much easier than dealing with humans. Here’s to all the people out there who fall in love with books more than they do people.
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I’m gonna write a book about the difficulties of watching Pride and Prejudice dubbed into French. It will be called L’Austen Translation
— Greg Jenner (@greg_jenner) October 21, 2013
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[sees girl reading The Catcher in the Rye]
“Ah I love that book. The way he just [clenches fist] catches all that frickin rye.”— David Hughes (@david8hughes) June 1, 2014
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Dante followed Virgil down, past killers and adulterers. “And here,” Virgil said “are the makers of websites that automatically play audio.”
— Saladin Ahmed (@saladinahmed) August 5, 2014
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http://dukeofbookingham.tumblr.com/post/95747941740/when-a-book-starts-out-great-but-then-the-end-is
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http://katokeeffe.tumblr.com/post/114271179798/bookmad-you-cant-read-that-entire-book-in-a
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haha I made an autocorrect shortcut on my mom's phone to replace dirty laundry with the text of Ulysses #lol #momfail pic.twitter.com/cc63FUb8m7
— Patrick M (@MrBikferd) April 25, 2014
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Not to brag, but I sigh as deeply and frequently as the average heroine in a Jane Austen novel.
— Josh Gondelman (@joshgondelman) September 25, 2015
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frodo: [doesnt know how to get to mordor, doesnt know how to fight, doesnt know who he should actually trust] i need to do this alone
— YUNG SPIDER GOD (@buttgh0st) February 24, 2015
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– much ado about nothing
– 2 much 2 nothing
– much ado 3: toyko drift
– much nothing
– much 5
– much ado 6
– nothing 7— Lamp (@fujichia) October 1, 2015
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Ever realised how fucking surreal reading a book actually is? You stare at marked slices of tree for hours on end, hallucinating vividly
— Katie (@KatieOldham) December 9, 2014
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me: goodnight moon 🙂
moon: night<3
me: goodnight stars 🙂
moon: wtf
me: sry wrongnumber
moon: whos stars
moon: who is stars
moon: answer me— jonny sun (@jonnysun) October 21, 2014
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Starting a cover band called “A Book” so no one can judge us.
— Scary Terry F (@daemonic3) June 21, 2014
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https://dukeofbookingham.tumblr.com/post/91616042355/packing-a-carry-on
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*sees a bookstore*
me: Don’t do it.
me @ me: You haven’t bought a book today. You need to reward yourself with a book. pic.twitter.com/oP8PrgAkOb— Sarah R. Hatch (@SarahRHatch) March 22, 2017
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http://beckisbookshelf.tumblr.com/post/87759635799/when-an-author-kills-your-favorite-character
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http://beckisbookshelf.tumblr.com/post/103893441479/slow-books
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adult fiction: I am riddled w ennui shall I cheat on my wife perhaps
YA fiction: overthrow govt and also kill its grasping maoist successor
— Anthony Oliveira (@meakoopa) December 18, 2016