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I collect those quotes here in a way they don’t spam my main tumblr, or get lost in my likes, never to be seen again. Hopefully this way others will find and enjoy them too.

“The best moments in reading are when you come across something — a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things — that you’d thought special, particular to you. And here it is, set down by someone else, a person you’ve never met, maybe even someone long dead. And it’s as if a hand has come out and taken yours.” - Hector, The History Boys.
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</description><title>a-thousand-words</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @a-thousand-words)</generator><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d84ce244038f43527a615461519b4f8f/tumblr_mjvx3lEBHQ1qhmhdfo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51315653718</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51315653718</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 18:40:25 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lx5sthg7UU1qzg5ooo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51304911888</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51304911888</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 16:00:06 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9e070593e000fcf486ee99f718373445/tumblr_mmbkxxLSDs1qdgauwo1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51298631814</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51298631814</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 14:02:07 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>I&amp;#8217;m on a coach through the county side, and i&amp;#8217;ve have just seen a sign for a duck race...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#8217;m on a coach through the county side, and i&amp;#8217;ve have just seen a sign for a duck race outside a packed pub. Only in Britain.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51298033964</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51298033964</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 13:48:32 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>"The world will knock you down plenty. You don’t need to be doing it to yourself."</title><description>“The world will knock you down plenty. You don’t need to be doing it to yourself.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;Elizabeth Scott, &lt;em&gt;Perfect You&lt;/em&gt; (via &lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://erraticintrovert.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;erraticintrovert&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51296873182</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51296873182</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 13:20:05 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/63d4955943848deb6010187c6a9c3b83/tumblr_mkhqpwnrjx1qlict8o1_500.png"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51292506571</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51292506571</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 11:06:28 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdz22blmp71qmbg8bo1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51291723162</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51291723162</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 10:40:03 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/1f37d15522bc99a568e2dba7e348a4e1/tumblr_mn2og7NuCs1qz4d4bo1_500.gif"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51289656439</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51289656439</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 09:29:50 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/5ad0e953646c413ee114979fdd064b17/tumblr_mh3pw4mZmk1qmkgwho1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51286711621</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51286711621</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 08:00:05 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most..."</title><description>“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Charles Darwin&lt;/strong&gt; (via &lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://life-itself-is-a-quotation.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;life-itself-is-a-quotation&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51278890620</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51278890620</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 05:20:03 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/230a77b91f3cd7160c996bc2ca67b1d1/tumblr_mmanj0W8Vs1qinh1vo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51267782430</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51267782430</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 02:40:12 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>wearviral:

“Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/73d315ab054eb9fa71ee97e1b653c00d/tumblr_mn99q2oOE01s8vcubo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://wearviral.tumblr.com/post/51149195445/dont-tell-me-the-sky-is-the-limit-when-there-are" target="_blank"&gt;wearviral&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;“Don’t tell me the sky is the limit when there are foot prints on the moon.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(at QuotedTee.com)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51260690177</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51260690177</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:53:18 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/fb32125ad32cf354009add9019840fde/tumblr_mnbtd21Ob21qzcw9so1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51259261974</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51259261974</guid><pubDate>Sat, 25 May 2013 00:31:49 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/62983707b50b876a735d70beefd73ad7/tumblr_mlgf7gXBIe1qzr04eo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51256751998</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51256751998</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:54:51 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/6707a5faaf90bb28c3626764250b16e4/tumblr_mn749vfuKF1qzr04eo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51256250160</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51256250160</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:47:39 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>Photo</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8f937ec827e7cae2f428f680ff05cd24/tumblr_mnb54nLM7o1qzr04eo1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51255641323</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51255641323</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:38:52 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>someonetosmileabout:

quoteskine

(via quoteskine)</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/UnZPXaF4bpana1pvMW23KOUWo1_400.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://someonetosmileabout.tumblr.com/post/14286382669/quoteskine" target="_blank"&gt;someonetosmileabout&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://www.quoteskine.co.uk/post/3291292347/im-gonna-reblog-some-of-my-old-love-themed" target="_blank"&gt;quoteskine&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(via &lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://quoteskine.co.uk/post/132221235" target="_blank"&gt;quoteskine&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51254809269</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51254809269</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 23:26:57 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>"Say you’re walking down the sidewalk on a beautiful day. Someone who has internalized an outsider’s..."</title><description>“&lt;p&gt;Say you’re walking down the sidewalk on a beautiful day. Someone who has internalized an outsider’s perspective of herself will often spend more time adjusting her clothing or hair, wondering what other people are thinking of her, judging the shape of her shadow or reflection in a window, etc. She will picture herself walking – she literally turns herself into an object of vision – instead of enjoying the sunny weather….&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;… Women are constantly being looked at. Even when we’re not, we’re so hyperaware of the possibility of being looked at that it can rule even our most private lives. Including in front of our mirrors, alone.&lt;/p&gt;”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="userContent"&gt;&lt;span class="text_exposed_show"&gt;Excerpt via Beauty Redefined ”&lt;a href="http://www.beautyredefined.net/to-be-or-to-be-looked-at" target="_blank"&gt;To BE or to be LOOKED at&lt;/a&gt;?” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; (via &lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://newyorkisajungle.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;newyorkisajungle&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51249013547</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51249013547</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 22:04:35 +0100</pubDate><category>h</category></item><item><title>

Sometimes I get ‘readers-block’, like I can’t read anything to save my life, I’ll start 10 books...</title><description>&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Sometimes I get ‘readers-block’, like I can’t read anything to save my life, I’ll start 10 books and stop each after seven pages because all I’ll want is to &lt;em&gt;already have read&lt;/em&gt; that book and not actually read it and I won’t be able to focus at all and it &lt;em&gt;pains me so much&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51248885945</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51248885945</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 22:02:45 +0100</pubDate></item><item><title>"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like..."</title><description>“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.”&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt; - &lt;em&gt;&lt;span&gt;Charles Bukowski&lt;/span&gt;  (via &lt;a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://thatkindofwoman.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;thatkindofwoman&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/em&gt;</description><link>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51248182819</link><guid>http://a-thousand-words.tumblr.com/post/51248182819</guid><pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 21:52:48 +0100</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
