February 2012
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January 2012
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The Average - W.H. Auden
[my favourite poem]
The Average
His peasant parents killed themselves with toil To let their darling leave a stingy soil For any of those smart professions which Encourage shallow breathing, and grow rich. The pressure of their fond ambition made Their shy and country-loving child afraid No sensible career was good enough, Only a hero could deserve such love. So here he was without maps or...
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“The act of writing defies all distance.”
– Edmond Jabès, The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion, trans. Rosmarie Waldrop (via proustitute)
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“You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll...”
– Anaïs Nin
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“I begin to realise how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught...”
– My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl (via creatingaquietmind)
December 2011
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“We could tell already that this one was as expensive, as finely made and as...”
– Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
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“In New York it becomes so easy to assume that the city’s most alluring...”
– Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
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“I understand how comforting denial can be… I often endorse it for our...”
– Guidance councelor in ‘Suburgatory’
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A Poison Tree
I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. And I watered it in fears, Night and morning with my tears; And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles. And it grew both day and night, Till it bore an apple bright. And my foe beheld it shine. And he knew that it was mine, And into my garden stole When the...
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“A few times in my life I’ve had moments of absolute clarity, when for a few...”
– A Single Man. Interesting tidbit - Tom Ford says when people ask him to describe his life/ himself, he tells them to watch this movie. This bit, this is one of the bits that describes him personally.
“Politeness. Now, there’s a poor man’s virtue if there ever was one. What’s so...”
– The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (via jessicaloveex3) (via quote-book)
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“He acts like an animal, has an animal’s habits! Eats like one, moves like...”
– Blance in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Scene Four
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“I’ll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that...”
– Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams, Scene 9
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“Are you interested in films by any chance? I like really old films. You can see...”
– Tilda Swinton’s Character in the Jim Jarmusch fim The Limits of Control
November 2011
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“I can never say what I want to say. It’s been like this for a while now. I try...”
– Naoko (“Norwegian Wood” by Haruki Murakami)
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Don't You Recall?
Do you know where you came from?
You came from God’s harem, that’s where.
Yes, from God, who is without fault or flaw.
Try to remember.
Don’t you recall those divine, beautiful lips?
In truth, you’ve forgotten them,
and that’s why you’re so confused
and your head is spinning.
You’ve been selling your soul for a handful of dirt.
What a lousy...
“A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That’s why there are so few good...”
– Truman Capote (via madelaloco)
“Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot...”
– (via wicked-white)
“…people are consistently told “What can you learn about your own life from this...”
– Fran Lebowitz (via schwer)
“All God’s children are not beautiful. Most of God’s children are, in fact,...”
– Fran Lebowitz
(Metropolitan Life)
(via wecangetthemforyouwholesale)
October 2011
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Isn't it funny how from year to year, you don't...
September 2011
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“Even people who aren’t geniuses can outthink the rest of mankind if they...”
– Charles Darwin