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Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707-1762)
I love how some portraits break the usual ideal stiffness and have pleasant and different and mysterious gestures like these. There’s something magical about them.
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English woman in Women’s Auxiliary Air Force uniform reading a magazine with her gas mask beside her. Photograph by David E. Scherman. London, September 1941.
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Abandoned (1881-2)
James Tissot.
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(by Giovana Medeiros)
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When someone I know says they don’t really read books
Outside: Oh okay then.
Inside: Get out, friendship over!
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I saw the book—didn’t read it at all—didn’t think it worth reading—fingered it a little. Mother thought as I did.
George Whitman writing to his brother Walt about Leaves of Grass. (via pleasedontsqueezetheshaman)
The jokes, they make themselves.
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An Interesting Story, Francis Coates Jones
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Edward Ardizzone illustration taken from The Little Book RoombyEleanor Farjeon
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