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"The world belongs to those who read."
-Rick Holland

You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.

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The Literary Snob: Things I Learned From Opening a Book Store

dorkygiraffe:

1. People are getting rid of bookshelves. Treat the money you budgeted for shelving as found money. Go to garage sales and cruise the curbs.

2. While you’re drafting that business plan, cut your projected profits in half. People are getting rid of bookshelves.

3. If someone…

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theliterarysnob:

abookishtype:

I once made someone snort milk out their nose by mispronouncing the word harbingers. I said “hare bringers of doom.”

You know one word that drives me insane, colonel. I don’t mispronounce it anymore, but when I was a kid I’d say co-lo-nel. Instead of pronouncing it kernal. Please English show me where there is an “r” sounding string of letters in colonel.
Go home English, you’re drunk!

Definitely did the colonel thing too. Mostly while playing Clue. Stupid English.

theliterarysnob:

abookishtype:

I once made someone snort milk out their nose by mispronouncing the word harbingers. I said “hare bringers of doom.”

You know one word that drives me insane, colonel. I don’t mispronounce it anymore, but when I was a kid I’d say co-lo-nel. Instead of pronouncing it kernal. Please English show me where there is an “r” sounding string of letters in colonel.

Go home English, you’re drunk!


Definitely did the colonel thing too. Mostly while playing Clue. Stupid English.

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lol remember in high school when newspaper articles were good enough to use as sources?


But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. [Philosopher’s Stone, Page 132, Hallowe’en]

But from that moment on, Hermione Granger became their friend. There are some things you can’t share without ending up liking each other, and knocking out a twelve-foot mountain troll is one of them. [Philosopher’s Stone, Page 132, Hallowe’en]

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English teacher: never kill off your main character it shows poor writing skills
Shakespeare: excuse you
Steven Moffatt: excuse you
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: excuse you
Emily Brontë: excuse you
Joss Whedon: excuse you
Richard Castle: excuse you
J.K. Rowling: excuse you
George R. R. Martin: excuse you
Stephanie Meyer: okay!
Victor Hugo: lol, i did better, i killed everyone

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