Uma questão de auto-confiança / Self-confidence

“I have great faith in fools - my friends call it self-confidence.”

Edgar Allan Poe

Pai natal oferece cartão de biblioteca / Santa gives library card

Contos de fadas para gajos / A guy's book of fairy tales

Baby Blues

Era uma vez um rapaz... / Once upon a time there was a boy who...

“Once upon a time there was a boy.
He lived in a village that no longer exists,
in a house that no longer exists,
on the edge of a field that no longer exists,
where everything was discovered
 and everything was possible.
A stick could be a sword.
A pebble could be a diamond.
A tree could be a castle.”  

Nicole Krauss

O fado é Património Imaterial da Humanidade/ The Portuguese Fado

Mariza - Ó gente da minha Terra

Oiçam e comovam-se.

Ó gente da minha terra, estamos de parabéns! O fado foi hoje considerado Património Imaterial da Humanidade pela UNESCO.  :)

O bom bibliotecário / The good librarian

“Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.”

Marilyn Johnson, This Book Is Overdue!

A geografia de Homer Simpson/ Homer Simpson's geography

Uma das personagens mais deliciosamente idiotas alguma vez criadas. Mais idiota que isto é muito difícil mas mesmo assim adoramo-lo!

A estante dos meus livros / My books have their own shelves

Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi, 1861

"I want my books to have their own shelves.’ you said,

and that’s how I knew it would be okay to live together.” 

 “The Lover’s Dictionary” by David Levithan

Não sejas normal, conta a história que só tu podes contar / Get crazy: start telling the stories that only you can tell

“Start telling the stories that only you can tell, because there’ll always be better writers than you and there’ll always be smarter writers than you. There will always be people who are much better at doing this or doing that - but you are the only you. Tarantino - you can criticize everything that Quentin does - but nobody writes Tarantino stuff like Tarantino. He is the best Tarantino writer there is, and that was actually the thing that people responded to - they’re going ‘this is an individual writing with his own point of view. There are better writers than me out there, there are smarter writers, there are people who can plot better - there are all those kinds of things, but there’s nobody who can write a Neil Gaiman story like I can.”  

Neil Gaiman

A ouvir Michael Buble: Dream a Little Dream of Me

A ouvir Aurea: Busy (for me)

Elogio do inconformismo / The joy of change

"So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”  

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

Talvez eu não escreva para ninguém / "Perhaps I write for no one"

Pierre Mornet

“Perhaps I write for no one. Perhaps for the same person children are writing for, when they scrawl their names in the snow.” 

Margaret Atwood, from “The Blind Assassin” (2000)

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