December 2009
“When we think of the past, it’s the beautiful things we pick out. We want to...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale (via inspiri) (via thresca)
Even though this has been a tough year beyond measure for me, I am trying to look back on this last day of 2009 and think of the good. There were some good times.
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good books and best wishes.
paperbackgirl:
aiming to approach books, literature and the nyc community of readers and writers thoughtfully in 2010.
blogs that have entertained and inspired me in 2009:
52books
thebronzemedal
slaughterhouse90210
walkwhilereading
meaghano
magicmolly
books i read in 2009 that moved me: 2666 by roberto bolano, the house of mirth by edith wharton, netherland by joseph o’neill, kafka on...
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King Dork: A Really, Really Funny Book
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johncarney:
I bought King Dork when Krucoff was pimping it out a year or two ago. I only made it through the first dozen or so pages before I left it in a bag that I lost in the Annex or the Orchard Bar or some such place that a Lewitinn was probably responsible for me attending.
Anyway, I bought it again just before Christmas. I had intended to give it to a...
“On with the dance! Let joy be unconfined;
No sleep till morn, when Youth and...”
– Lord Byron
“she could have been a poet
or she could have been a fool.”
– the smiths (via eemmaa) (via infinitebutterflies)
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that...”
– Charles Dickens (via laceandtea)
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“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits:...”
– Mark Twain (via turnofthecentury)
“In those days, we finally chose to walk like giants & hold the world in arms...”
– Brian Andreas (via thoughtsdetained)
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“And I learned what is obvious to a child.
That life is simply a collection of...”
– ~ The Notebook
(via gatekeeper & thechosenwords)
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“An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the...”
– Bill Vaughan (via somethingintellectual) (via interrobangag)
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“Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you’re...”
– Richard Bach (via daniellekiemel)
“You must keep sending work out; you must never let a manuscript do nothing but...”
– Isaac Asimov (via mihirai)
from "The Remains"
ofravens:
I say my own name. I say goodbye. The words follow each other downwind. I love my wife but send her away. My parents rise out of their thrones into the milky rooms of clouds. How can I sing? Time tells me what I am. I change and I am the same. I empty myself of my life and my life remains. Mark Strand
“Whereof what’s past is prologue, what to come
In yours and my discharge.”
– William Shakespeare, The Tempest, Act II, Scene 1, lines 253–54. “What’s past is prologue” is carved on the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. (via literarypiano)
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”
– Haruki Murakami (via cherrylolita) (via yeahmurakami)
“’ I wish I could say everything there was to say in one word. I hate all the...”
– Leonard Cohen (via whokilled) (via smut-to-go) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via lapetitebaobab)
“It was like the classic scene in the movies where one lover is on the train and...”
– Lorrie Moore, A Gate at the Stairs. (via meaghano)
“imagining something is better than remembering something”
– excerpt from j. irving’s the world according to garp (via whatsupstairs)
“The aim of literature … is the creation of a strange object covered with fur...”
– Donald Barthelme (via leprintemps)
“Don’t you know you can’t do anything about people?”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via nevver)
“There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people...”
– Hermann Hesse (1877-1962) (via ontheborderland)
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“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to...”
– Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 5, Scene V (via ontheborderland) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“No two books ever follow quite the same road to reach us. Like people, some stay...”
– Julia Keller (via jingc)
“We can never be born enough.”
– —e.e. cummings (via andbygodtherewillbedancing)
“There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent...”
– Marcel Proust (via kendalllouise)
“‘You look invincible,’ my mother said one night.
I loved these times, when we...”
– (via iwannotowidigdo)
“Like many people concerned about “humanity,” he was contemptuous of actual...”
– Christopher Caldwell reviews a new biography of Arthur Koestler, who, it seems, had a brilliant mind but was a rather awful person. (via thebronzemedal)
“Words, once they are printed, have a life of their own.”
– Carol Burnett (via ilovereadingandwriting) (via kendalllouise)