December 2011
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“In theory these mementos serve to bring back the moment.
In fact they serve...”
– Joan Didion, Blue Nights (via distantheartbeats)
“… believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and...”
– Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (trans. Stephen Mitchell)
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“Don’t delve and dredge. Cut down on nostalgia, that too can be insidious....”
– Perdita Schaffner, H.D.’s daughter, in her introduction to H.D.’s HERmione (via leopoldgursky)
“When you play the field selfishly everything
works against you:
one can’t...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
“I am reading a novel by Louise Erdrich.
At one point, a great grandfather meets...”
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Eduardo Galeano, “Forgetting/1” (from The Book of Embraces)
“I was never aware of any other option but to question everything.”
– Noam Chomsky (via soporifics)
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“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with...”
– Joan Didion
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Interviewer: Tell us about your relationship with Robert Downey Jr.
Jude Law: Oh, I love him.
Interviewer: You have a bit of a bromance going on there.
Jude Law: What is this new term everybody's using? That's a horrible term. What about just a 'romance'?
Interviewer: No, that's not the same, 'cos then you'd have to star in a romantic comedy together or something.
Jude Law: We just have! Have you not seen it?
“A love like that was a serious illness, an illness from which you never entirely...”
– Charles Bukowski. (via anarexic)
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“Does such a thing as ‘the fatal flaw’, that showy dark crack running down the...”
– Donna Tartt, from The Secret History (foxandfayvel via glitterdeers)
“It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to...”
– Carl Sagan (via cwnl)
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“It’s a mystery of human chemistry and I don’t understand it, some people, as far...”
– High Fidelity (via lovepassiton)
“There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you...”
– Tennessee Williams (via grecianurn)
“Just pretend my writing is like somebody else’s
What things are important to...”
– Matthew Rohrer, Second Poem for Theodore (via grammatolatry)
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“Do you ever grow weary of your own perspective?—of the mistakes you fall into,...”
– Kara VanderBijl, “Charades” (via leopoldgursky)
“Stop being holy, forget being prudent,
it’ll be a hundred times better for...”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching - “Raw Silk & Uncut Wood” (via cityography)
