February 2012
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“How I Dearly Wish I Was Not Here”
– Morrissey (via joanwitch)
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“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”
– Haruki Murakami (via misswallflower)
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“I don’t know what it means and I don’t care because it’s Shakespeare and it’s...”
– Frank McCourt, Angela’s Ashes (via foxandfayvel)
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foxandfayvel:
Van Gogh writing his brother for paints Hemingway testing his shotgun Celine going broke as a doctor of medicine the impossibility of being human Villon expelled from Paris for being a thief Faulkner drunk in the gutters of his town the impossibility of being human Burroughs killing his wife with a gun Mailer stabbing his the impossibility of being human Maupassant going...
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“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why....”
– Stephen Fry. (via hellolittlefawn)
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“And I hide behind these books I read while scribbling my poetry, like art could...”
– Conor Oberst (via wheresmaple)
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“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman (via misswallflower)
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“I’m not fascinated by people who smile all the time. What I find interesting is...”
– Unknown (via slekes)
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“I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, BBC Television Interview [1962] (via contrive)
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“I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via bookmania)
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“those faces you see every day on
the streets were not created
entirely without...”
– Charles Bukowski (via moldavia)
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hermionejg:
Some parents refuse to read Goldilocks to their kids because it features theft and Little Red Riding Hood because it features “abduction”. Ridiculous. I only point to something JKR said in an interview with Stephen Fry many many years ago:
“I feel very strongly that there is a move to sanitise literature because we’re trying to protect children, not...
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After Us
rabbit-light:
One day someone will fold our blankets and send them to the cleaners to scrub the last grain of salt from them, will open our letters and sort them out by date instead of by how often they’ve been read. One day someone will rearrange the room’s furniture like chessmen at the start of a new game, will open the old shoe box where we hoard pajama-buttons, not-quite-dead batteries and...
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mitford:
siftingflour: icelandiclanguage:
In relation to the poetry posts, there is this Icelandic word skúffuskáld, which means someone who’s secretly a poet. It literally means “drawer poet”, someone who writes poetry but chugs it all into his desk drawer instead of showing it to people.
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parents: you will never understand our hopes and expectations
me: black holes and revelations
parents: what
me: what
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“If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.”
– Leonard Cohen (via knockturn)
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January 2012
39 posts
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“Gazing at the rain, I consider what it means to belong, to become part of...”
– Dance, Dance, Dance by Haruki Murakami (via cerfs)
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“I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (July-Sept 1950)
Sometimes I think she lives inside my head. For better, for worse.
(via hermionejg)