May 2013
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April 2013
8 posts
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“How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it’s just words.”
– David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King (via commovente)
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“I had trouble graduating from Berkeley, not because of this inability to deal...”
– “Why I Write,” Joan Didion (via commovente)
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“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
– John Steinbeck (via lonur)
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March 2013
11 posts
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“Y. That perfect letter. The wishbone, fork in the road, empty wineglass. The...”
– Marjorie Celona, Y. (via commovente)
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“You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to...”
– Aaron Freeman “You Want A Physicist To Speak at your Funeral” (npr)
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“I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways.”
– Rumi (via archaean-romanticism)
February 2013
4 posts
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“A book can teach you, a conversation can assure you, a poem can seduce you, a...”
– Anthony Anaxagorou (via ablogwithaview)
January 2013
15 posts
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“You never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via obdormio)
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“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
– Lao Tzu (via bigbadsoul)
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“Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been...”
– “The Sciences Sing a Lullaby,” Albert Goldbarth (via commovente)
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“A conglomerate heap of trash, that’s what I am. But it burns with a high flame.”
– Ray Bradbury (Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 203, Ray Bradbury)
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“On average, 5 people are born every second and 1.78 die.
So we’re ahead by...”
– Arkaye Kierulf, “Textbook Statistics” (via pigmenting)
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“My mother always closes her bedroom drapes tight
before going to bed at night....”
– Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay” (via heliophobus)
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Things I want to tell people, that I wish people... →
pada-viya:
fantasyparade:
You don’t have to achieve great things by the time you’re 25.
You have intrinsic value above and beyond your perceived utility to other people and society at large.
You don’t have to have sex, or have sex in any way that you find uncomfortable or unpleasant, to keep anyone’s love or good opinion of you. They didn’t love you or think very well of you to start with if...
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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their...”
– Oscar Wilde (via escaping-the-bell-jar)
December 2012
38 posts
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“I am more interested in human beings than in writing, more interested in...”
– Defense of the Fluid Self, on why Anaïs Nin turned down a Harper’s Bazaar profile (via commovente)
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“It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.”
– Marcel Proust (via seabois)
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“There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via seabois)
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“Nostalgia is inevitably a yearning for a past that never existed.”
– John Green (via seabois)
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“Sometimes, at night, I would sleep open-eyed underneath a sky dripping with...”
– Albert Camus, Return to Tipasa (via antisocialblogger) 