‘My innocence doesn’t simplify the matter’
Tag: literature
Cannery Row by John Steinbeck (1945)
It was the hour of the pearl – the interval between day and night when time stops and examines itself
Heidi by Johanna Spyri (1880)
“Saying good night to the mountains, the sun throws his most beautiful rays to them, that they may not forget him till morning”
Breakfast at Tiffany’s by Truman Capote (1958)
You’ve got to be sensitive to appreciate her: a streak of the poet
Bookstore Bums II: City Lights Bookstore
Open Door/Open Mind/Open Books/Open Heart
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell (1933)
“Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry”
Bookstore Bums I: Green Apple in San Francisco
How I feel about bookstores is the way Jordan from The Great Gatsby felt about parties, “he gives large parties….and I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” In that sense, Green Apple Books & Music in San Francisco is a large party.
The Fall by Albert Camus (1956)
“Too many people have decided to do without generosity in order to practice charity”
Lonesome Traveler by Jack Kerouac (1960)
“America’s always rememberable in exile”
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens (1860)
“I shall always need you, because I will always love you; but my need is no greater now than at another time”
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott (1868)
“I can’t get over my disappointment in not being a boy”
Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens (1837)
“Death, fires, and burglary make all men equals”
On the Road by Jack Kerouac (1957)
The road is life
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit (2005)
Landscapes and Mindscapes
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)
“I mean how do you know what you’re going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don’t.”
