January 2012
“…Further, accentuating all these difficulties and making them harder to bear is...”
– Virginia Woolf, “A Room of One’s Own” (via wisheye)
Jan 27th
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Jan 25th
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Jan 25th
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“Jocelyn knows I’m waiting for Bennie. But Bennie is waiting for Alice, who’s...”
– Jennifer Egan, A Visit From The Goon Squad (via facethedawn)
Jan 24th
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“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
– William Blake (via anidridecarbonica)
Jan 22nd
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Jan 21st
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Jan 20th
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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 19th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 18th
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Jan 17th
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“Actually we did not have the feelings we said we had until we spoke them—...”
– Philip Roth
Jan 17th
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Jan 17th
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“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...”
– Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via carleeen)
Jan 17th
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Jan 16th
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The Solitary
art-of-drowning: No: my heart shall be a tower, and I myself set at its highest rim: where nothing else exists, once again pain and the unsayable, once again world. Still one thing alone in immensity, growing dark then light again, still one last face full of longing thrust out into the unappeasable, still one uttermost face made of stone heeding only its own inner gravity, while the distances...
Jan 15th
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Jan 15th
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"Safe Sex" by Donald Hall
If he and she do not know each other, and feel confident they will not meet again; if he avoids affectionate words; if she has grown insensible skin under skin; if they desire only the tribute of another’s cry; if they employ each other as revenge on old lovers or families of entitlement and steel— then there will be no betrayals, no letters returned unread, no frenzy, no hurled words of...
Jan 14th
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Jan 12th
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“All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.”
– H.G. Wells, The Invisible Man (via chamaeri)
Jan 11th
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Jan 10th
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“Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my...”
– Night by Elie Wiesel (via mariellexbby)
Jan 9th
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Jan 8th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 7th
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Jan 6th
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Jan 5th
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“Life is a gamble, at terrible odds — if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it.”
– Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (via liquidnight)
Jan 4th
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“One day I discovered the right tone. It was based on the way my grandmother used...”
– Gabriel García Márquez (via theparisreview)
Jan 2nd
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Jan 1st
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“Under the gaze of vintage Italian posters and forests of empty wine bottles,...”
– You go, Groupon copywriter. Don’t let that email-as-medium fact hold you back. (via newsweek)
Jan 1st
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Jan 1st
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“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them...”
– Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Jan 1st
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December 2011
Dec 31st
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“I can be glib and truthful all at once.”
– Richard Russo
Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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lookatmybooks: Maine by J. Courtney Sullivan
Dec 30th
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Dec 29th
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Dec 28th
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“A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely...”
– Oscar Wilde
Dec 28th
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Dec 28th
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