January 2012
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“In the arts… a worthy failure is more important than a mediocre success.”
– Kuo Pao Kun
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“That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn’t good...”
– Bill Watterson (via misswallflower)
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“I dream about her, I do not dream her. And confronted with the photograph, as in...”
– Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida (via rosemarygeorge)
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“The beauty of things must be that they end.”
– Jack Kerouac, Tristessa (via honeyforthehomeless)
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“You’re an interesting species. An interesting mix. You’re capable of such...”
– Carl Sagan (via goetia)
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“Look here Vita — throw over your man, and we’ll go to Hampton Court and dine on...”
– Virginia Woolf, from a letter to Vita Sackville-West (via brainpickings)
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“Life was immeasurably better once I forced myself to stop taking it seriously.”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via lucifelle)
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The Vonnegut moment
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
When your ipod shuffles to a song that was the song of your life, a song that you can hum by memory, a song that brings with it this bittersweet feeling that arises as one sees through the rose-tinted glasses of nostalgia.
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“I am passionate about everything in my life—first and foremost, passionate about...”
– bell hooks (via loveyourchaos)
RE: Todd Glass, coming out, and gay rights.
nedhepburn:
I have a ton of respect for anyone that decides to come out of the closet. Or anyone gay, really. I have no idea how they do it. It’s bizarre to think that in this day and age it’s still taboo to have a genetic disposition. There’s so much more I could write. I’m really at a loss for words – people have worded it so much better than me but if I didn’t say anything about it I don’t...
Some of my worst friends are books | Rick Gekoski... →
booksactually:
” For there to be a conversation – a dialogue – there have to be at least two active participants. That’s company. A book is not company. We engage with it, argue with it, carry it around in our pockets and minds, are haunted by memories of it for years. But it doesn’t argue back, doesn’t engage, never inquires how our day has been, gives only what it wishes. Books are...
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Hunter S. Thompson
writersroutines:
Do you worry about Plagiarism?
No, I pride myself with having the wisdom and taste to steal from the right people: Conrad, Fitzgerald, the Marquis de Sade, Prescott, Isak Dinesen, Coleridge, Twain, Pee Wee Herman—that swine. I learn from these people. Especially the dead ones.
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skelethongs:
“why do gay people have to be everywhere nowadays” said the heterosexual blogger as he sat down in the house owned by his heterosexual parents after a busy day at his primarily heterosexual school learning heterosexual-focused sex education and a syllabus approved by a government mainly made up of heterosexual politicians which enforced policies that generally benefited...
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“We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing — an actor, a writer — I am a...”
– Stephen Fry (via suzywire)
