January 2012
140 posts
“They have worries, they’re counting the miles, they’re thinking about where to...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via talkativolive)
“Oh god it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke...”
– Frank O’Hara (via fleurishes)
December 2011
135 posts
“Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us...”
– Thomas Pynchon (via pavorst)
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– Neil Gaiman (via quotewhore)
“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my...”
– Nietzsche (via silverslipper)
“One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with...”
– Gabriel García Márquez (via pavorst)
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom...”
– Anaïs Nin (via matrem)
“But in the end, back she comes. There’s no use resisting. She goes to him for...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (via hateshiploveship)
“Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via myquotelibrary)
“The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. They’re Caeser’s...”
– Ray Bradbury (via slekes)
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly...”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via larmoyante)
“To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via honeyforthehomeless)
“The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a...”
– Alan Bennett (via pavorst)
“He spoke of human solitude, about the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated...”
– Nicole Krauss (via misswallflower)
“If someone told me to write a book on morality, it would have a hundred pages...”
– Albert Camus (via azspot)
“You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.”
– Buddha (via elige)
“You must write every single day of your life.You must lurk in libraries and...”
– Ray Bradbury (via decrepito)
“I am mainly preoccupied with the world as I experience it, and at times when I...”
– Frank O’Hara, “Statement for The New American Poetry” (via sonofapritch)
“Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week...”
– Mark Twain (via entropyinaction)
“It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.”
– Alain De Botton, The Architecture of Happiness. (via thewhiplashgirlchild)
“Money does not change people, it unmasks them”
– The Prophet (via wendywanker)
“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.”
– Rudyard Kipling (via bitchville)
“I think a lot, but I don’t say much.”
– Anne Frank (via wintersbones)
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Chris McCandless (via blua)
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing....”
– Mark Twain (via missfolly)
“The obstacle is the path.”
– Zen Proverb (via missfolly)
“I have lots of things to teach you now, in case we ever meet, concerning the...”
– Jack Kerouac (via fleurishes)
“Avoid destructive thinking. Improper negative thoughts sink people. A ship can...”
– Alfred A. Montapert (via paradise-garage)
“I put my head under my pillow and let the quiet put things where they are...”
– Stephen Chbosky (via passionately—curious)
“And the deer -
how beautiful they are,
as though their bodies did not impede...”
– Louise Gluck from ‘Messengers’ (via gravellyrun)
““Everything is more beautiful
because we’re doomed.
You will never be...”
– Homer, The Iliad (via unnamablerevelations)
“It’s possible, in a poem or a short story, to write about commonplace things and...”
– Raymond Carver (via wordpainting)
“In Greek, “nostalgia” literally means “the pain from an old wound”. It’s a...”
– Don Draper (via beatboxgoesthump)
“What work do I have to do then?” said Will, but went on at once, “No, on second...”
– Philip Pullman (The Amber Spyglass)
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The...”
– The Rumpus Advice Column #64 (via leopoldgursky)
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via the-endisnigh)
“I do not believe making money in order to consume goods is mankind’s sole...”
– Bill Hicks (via disconnectedreality)
I count my tears in books.
teachingliteracy:
dearliller
“How well I know that rapture that comes sometimes when one is alone. I think...”
– Katherine Mansfield, from a letter to Ottoline Morrell, 27 December 1921 (via katherine-mansfield)
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Chris McCandless (via blua)
“I think a lot of people who think they’re good people are living a really evil...”
– Louis C.K., Louie (via fattlestarbaldactica)
“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.
Lo-lee-ta: the tip...”
– Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (via theoldludwigvan)
“The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute...”
– Charles Bukowski (via thousandpetallotus)
“Run like hell my dear
From anyone likely
To put a sharp knife
Into the...”
– Hafiz (via embracethevision)
“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the...”
– Alexander Pope
“I never want to be away from you again, except at work, in the restroom or when...”
– Lemony Snicket (via isolement)
“Be courageous. It’s one of the only places left uncrowded.”
– Anita Roddick (via missfolly)
“The world should be built for foot walkers”
– Jack Kerouac - From Bus East, written on a bus to NY, 1954 (via my-jailhouse-smile) 