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Jan 27

“ …Further, accentuating all these difficulties and making them harder to bear is the world’s notorious indifference. It does not ask people to write poems and novels and histories; it does not need them.

— Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own” (via wisheye)

Jan 26

thatwasanothercountry:

“Archer did not accompany his son to Versailles. He preferred to spend the afternoon in solitary roamings through Paris. He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled memories of an inarticulate lifetime.”

Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

Jan 25

writersihaveloved:

Edmund Wilson—your guide to good books

Jan 24

(Source: down-the-oubliette)

“ Jocelyn knows I’m waiting for Bennie. But Bennie is waiting for Alice, who’s waiting for Scotty, who’s waiting for Jocelyn. Jocelyn is waiting for Lou.
No one is waiting for me. In this story, I’m the girl no one is waiting for.

— Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad (via facethedawn)

Jan 23

hausofschlockhausen:

Tristessa by Jack Kerouac

Cover by Joan O’Connor

Jan 22

“ The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.

— William Blake (via anidridecarbonica)

(Source: lapoesiaelamerce, via mudwerks)

Jan 21

(via everything-inspiring)

Jan 20

Stephen King still enjoys the simple things.

(via goodtimesroll)

Jan 19

The World Is in Pencil

rabbit-light:

—not pen. It’s got

that same silken
dust about it, doesn’t it,

that same sense of
having been roughed

onto paper even
as it was planned.

It had to be a labor
of love. It must’ve

taken its author some
time, some shove.

I’ll bet it felt good
in the hand—the o

of the ocean, and
the and and the and

of the land.

Todd Boss

Jan 18

seltzerlizard:

Wikipedia blacked out to raise awareness of SOPA and PIPA, the bills that threaten the existence of a free internet as we know it.

vintageanchor:

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations…. Their authors are a natural and irresistible aristocracy in every society, and, more than kings or emperors, exert an influence on mankind.”

–Henry David Thoreau, from WALDEN

Jan 17

British scientists have found scores of fossils the great evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin and his peers collected but that had been lost for more than 150 years

“ Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them— at least I didn’t; to phrase them was to invent them and own them.

— Philip Roth