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Jun 05
Art project based off of a quote from The Fault In Our Stars
(via teachingliteracy)
Jun 04
“Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that.”
—Richard Ford
“Naga is one of a handful of rare words surviving the loss of the first universal language. In Buddhism, Wisdom has always been tied, symbolically, to the figure of the Serpent. In the Western Tradition it can be found as used by the Christ in the Gospel of Saint Matthew (10:16), “Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”
(Source: fourteenth, via lastchatwithphontaine)
Jun 03
awesomepeoplehangingouttogether:
Francis Bacon and William S. Burroughs
(Source: thejeffaquatic)
Storyteller (by 我的小風景)
“Books seem so much more, much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young…great books are organic works. They don’t die. They’re not frozen in any way. They’re absolutely alive, and more so as we get older.”
―Jhumpa Lahiri, Unaccustomed Earth
(Source: vintageanchorbooks, via readingavidly)
Jun 02
“ ‘You may be interested to know that a forty-one-year-old document has surfaced at the City of Bladenham archives that establishes that Hannah—of course you are familiar with Hannah, the elephant—has a trustee, a guardian, if you will; and that he, not the zoo, has the responsibility of overseeing her care and monitoring her health. Would this story be of interest to you?’
“ Infancy is what is eternal;
all the rest, all the rest
is brevity, extreme brevity.
all the rest, all the rest
is brevity, extreme brevity.
— Antonio Porchia, “Infancy is what is eternal” (via hateshiploveship)
(Source: learningfromthehands)
“ Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Jun 01
“ I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling star to another till I drop. This is the night, what it does to you.
— Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via honeyforthehomeless)
