June 2012
117 posts
“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which...”
– Michel Foucault (via socialistscum)
“There’s a space at the bottom of an exhale, a little hitch between taking in and...”
– Mary Karr, Lit: A Memoir (via litverve)
“In the space where my wife’s wings must have been
there are no scars, no broken...”
– “While Scratching My Wife’s Back, I Calculate the Distance Between Sky and Earth,” Matthew Olzmann (via clavicola)
“Someday, somewhere- anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and...”
– Pablo Neruda (via creatingaquietmind)
“People who claim that they’re evil are usually no worse than the rest of us…...”
– Gregory Maguire (via creatingaquietmind)
“Someone wants to celebrate their existence and you call it exhibitionism. It’s...”
– Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via tryhowandwhy)
“Here’s what I’ve got, the reasons why our marriage
might work: Because you wear...”
– : ”Mountain Dew Commercial Disguised As A Love Poem,” Matthew Olzmann (via clavicola)
“Let me begin by telling you that I was in love. An ordinary statement, to be...”
– Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms (via bookmania)
“Responsibility to yourself means that you don’t fall for shallow and easy...”
– Adrienne Rich (via simply-quotes)
“invent yourself and then reinvent yourself,
don’t swim in the same slough....”
– The Pleasures of the Damned - Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“The search for an identity is one of the most wholesale phony ideas we’ve ever...”
– Zadie Smith, talking about On Beauty (via marginalgloss) (via cesaire) (via swintons) (via nouvelle-nouveau) (via violentflight)
Pink Bullets: somewhere i have never... →
pink-bullets:
E.E. Cummings somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond any experience,your eyes have their silence: in your most frail gesture are things which enclose me, or which i cannot touch because they are too near your slightest look easily will unclose me though i have closed myself as…
“We lay on our backs looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via ephemer4l)
“Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been....”
– Eve Ensler (via venula)
“I know simply that the sky will last longer than I.”
– Albert Camus (via seabois)
“We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is, knowing how to...”
– Ray Bradbury (via psych-quotes)
“Here she is, all mine, trying her best to give me all she can. How could I ever...”
– Haruki Murakami (South of the Border, West of the Sun) 