October 2011
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“[But not ever
After.] And not now.”
– Seamus Heaney, “Had I Not Been Awake” (via the-final-sentence)
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“You make me feel like honey and trombones.”
– Anis Mojgani (via asphyxiations)
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“Sure baby, mañana. It was always mañana. For the next few weeks that was all I...”
– Jack Kerouac (via facelessdistraction)
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“Of course you can and do go on into the night after the music has ceased,...”
– A famous man called Luke Slater visited me for the Iceland Air-Waves, and wrote this in a magazine about loud music. (via icelandwantstobeyourfriend)
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I think this might be my Blue Period.
Whatever. La vie continue.
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“One crushed a plant for the end of a sorrow. One derived a forest from pendant...”
– Sarah Gridley, from “Grimoire” (via proustitute)
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“We live in an amazing world and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of...”
– Louis CK (via precipice)
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“When will you learn that there isn’t a word for everything?”
– Nicole Krauss (The History of Love)
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“[O]n the bus she became again a young medical student in Prague, her hair in a...”
– Edith Pearlman, “Vaquita” (via leopoldgursky)
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“It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without...”
– Aristotle (via blua)
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“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
– Thomas Paine (via orage)
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“What was I to do? The madness of it was so appealing, and the night so cold.”
–
Charles Simic, The World Doesn’t End
(via leopoldgursky)
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“It never bored them to hear words, words; they breathed them with the cool night...”
– E. M. Forster, A Passage to India (via awritersruminations)
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“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap...”
– Steve Jobs
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“I can still see in my mind’s eye the actual positioning of certain words on the...”
– Stephen Fry (via rosyaristocracy)
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“I hate to break it to you, but there is no big lie. There is no system. The...”
– Don Draper (via bvrnblack)
“[Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.]...”
– Mary Oliver, “Mysteries, Yes” from Evidence (via pauses-and-silences) (via the-final-sentence)
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“It’s a spectacular biological event, wondrous to behold, unless you’re a baby...”
– Behind the Veil (via outofcontextscience)
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“There is nothing more difficult than talking about music.”
– Charles-Camille Saint-Saëns, who would be 176 years old today.
He was a French Late-Romantic composer, organist, conductor, and pianist. He is known especially for The Carnival of the Animals, Danse macabre, Samson and Delilah, Piano Concerto No. 2, Cello Concerto No. 1, Havanaise, Introduction...
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“[Because we cannot fly we are condemned to do things that do not agree with us.]...”
– Birds Without Wings by Louis de Bernières (thanks, 13anachronismal)
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“In the midst of all your memories there is one
Faded away beyond recovering;...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, from “Limits,” trans. R. G. Barnes and Robert Mezey (via proustitute)
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“[One morning
the fox came down the hill, glittering and confident,
and didn’t...”
– Mary Oliver, from “October” (adapted from rabbit-light)
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“[Let them be!] We shall sit with lighter bosoms on the hearth, to see the ashes...”
– Charles Dickens, Hard Times (thanks, aghastandrantings) [redux] (via the-final-sentence)
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“It’s like morphine, language is. A fearful habit to form: you become a bore to...”
– William Faulkner, Mosquitoes (via wwnorton)
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“Look, I want to love this world
as though it’s the last chance I’m ever going...”
– Mary Oliver, from “October” (via proustitute)
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