December 2011
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Strictly Business.
Should I agree with anyone reading this that this is a true story? Or should I lead everyone into believing that this is only a matter of writing paragraphs on a dull afternoon, sharing stories made up in the mind? The answer, I do not know. Part One, my friends, for I believe these fingers are eager to speak more of just an episode:
A pause; and I stood out. One fine Monday morning, there I had...
In some strange way I am not with you, I am against you. We are destined to hold...
– Anais Nin (via sleepingtigers)
I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held...
– Same Sun Here by Silas House & Neela Vaswani (via whereipostthings)
For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy,...
– Aldous Huxley (via moldavia)
To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise:...
– Socrates (via canvus)
We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns...
– Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via otterysaintcatchpole)
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When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an...
– Jorge Luis Borges (via orchestre)
Art and Opinion: While it is possible that the... →
artandopinion:
While it is possible that the idea of the art one created was borrowed from other artists, it is also possible that one reached the idea entirely on one’s own, when it had been done before, although outside one’s knowledge. For example, sometimes I get epiphanies about certain things, only to…
And the rest is rust and stardust.
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via moldavia)