July 2009
4 posts
“I can give you a six-word formula for success: think things through, then follow...”
– Edward V. Rickenbacker (via littlemiss) (via coffeeandlipstick) (via constantwanderlust)
Excerpt From The Journals of John Cheever
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“Hemingway shot himself yesterday morning. There was a great man. I remember walking down a street in Boston after reading a book of his, and finding the color of the sky, the faces of strangers, and the smell of the city heightened and dramatized. The most important thing he did for me was to legitimatize manly courage, a quality that I had heard, until I came on...
“I disagree the proposition that we ought not to interfere in the internal politics of other societies. I believe that is exactly what foreign policy is. All foreign policy is the extension of one’s internal policies into the internal politics of another nation.”
- Gelb, http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22870
June 2009
2 posts
“Got tight last night on absinthe. Did knife tricks.”
– Ernest Hemingway
Via luminol(via libraryland)(via booktumbling)(via aquabooks)
May 2009
1 post
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via affremblequotes) (via easilydistracted) (via booktumbling) (via aquabooks)
April 2009
3 posts
Auden - Funeral Blues
Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone, Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come. Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead, Put crepe bows round the white necks of the public doves, Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves. He was my North,...
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
– Gore Vidal (via tumblelikeyougiveadamn) (via jessi (via planethome)
“Depression is merely anger without passion.”
– Irish proverb (via morningstar) (via poortaste) (via gnomechomsky)
March 2009
4 posts
[W]hat was evident in Gaza was that the humanistic tradition from which a code of ethics is derived was not being sufficiently observed there. (nyt)
“And make no mistake: irony tyrannizes us. The reason why our pervasive cultural...”
– David Foster Wallace (via everybodycares)
“Look, man, we’d probably most of us agree that these are dark times, and stupid...”
– David Foster Wallace, in an interview with Laura McCaffrey, 1991. (via oomb)
February 2009
15 posts
The conversation turned to the most overrated book, and after first saying, “Everything I read in high school,” she settled, decisively, on “The Catcher in the Rye.” I wavered between “Women in Love” (unevenly written, philosophically confused) and the Bible (unevenly written, philosophically confused).
- via
Only once did I come close to beating him. He’d had some cocktails, and he blundered, moving his queen into the path of my knight. I sacked the piece, and he slapped me on the mouth. I ran into the bathroom and punched myself several times to ensure a lasting bruise. When I emerged, he didn’t apologize, not exactly. But he said he’d give me anything I wanted not to tell my mother...
9 Hardest Times Of Your Life
frannyandzooey:bedofroses:extra-bvlgari:srsly:thoughtsonasunday:
1. Being questioned when you yourself do not understand.
2. Pretending to be innocent of what you know about.
3. Trying to forget something you never will.
4. Admitting you were wrong after being so insistent that you were right.
5. Debating with yourself.
6. Accepting the fact that some things are not meant to be.
7....
“There’s only one rule that I know of[…] - God damn it, you’ve got to be...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via capricious) (via bon-bon) (via breathsoftruth) (via srsly) (via tparty) (via gnomechomsky)
“You owe it to us all to get on with what you’re good at.”
– w.h. auden (via hrrrthrrr) (via meaghano)
“Great short stories and great jokes have a lot in common. Both depend on what...”
– David Foster Wallace, “Some Remarks on Kafka’s Funniness from Which Probably Not Enough Has Been Removed” (via cakelin)
Dover Beach...
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The sea is calm tonight, The tide is full, the moon lies fair Upon the straits; on the French coast the light Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. Come to the window, sweet is the night air!
Only, from the long line of spray Where the sea meets the moon-blanched land, Listen! you hear the grating roar Of pebbles...
“Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.”
- Michael Chabon, Wonder Boys
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“Nothing in the world is more common than unsuccessful people with talent, leave...”
– Banksy (via 131313thavenue)
“There are two types of people in this world; those who think that the world can...”
– Tom Robbins (via maegandawn)
“When she came back to the room David was not there and she stood for a long time...”
– Hemingway, Garden of Eden.
“His father, who ran his life more disastrously than any man that he had ever...”
– Hemingway, Garden of Eden
“If there is anything you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has...”
– Goethe.
“We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little, drive...”
– George Carlin (via kari-shma) (via babybitch) (via soupsoup) (via buyhercandy) (via unicornology)
January 2009
10 posts
“All of the characters are so completely neurotic! They’re all driven by the most...”
– My classmate, discussing The Sun Also Rises.
No, I don’t know anyone like that.
(via charmingmandy)
“It’s alright, letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.”
– Mick Jagger (via michellardi)
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not...”
– Richard Dawkins (via tmblg) (via lukees) (via markn)
“I believe that we are put here in human form to decipher the hieroglyphs of love...”
– Allen Ginsberg (via robot-heart) (via everybodycares)
“What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
(there has perhaps never been a more endlessly quotable person)
(via everybodycares)
“The first draft of anything is shit.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via susannaopal) (via spitintheocean) (via sugarhighz) (via markn)
epeolatry
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wordjournal:
noun • /ɛpɪˈɒlətrɪ/ • the worship of words
“We’ve reached the end of pure inspiration, and are now somewhere else, something...”
– Dave Eggers (via everybodycares)
December 2008
4 posts
“The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via everybodycares)
“Memories are what warm you up from the inside. But they’re also what tear you...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via marybethsc) (via everybodycares)
“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it...”
– Henry Miller. (via ephemeron: taylorswaim) (via luxuriousvulgarity)
Plimpton Interviewing Hemingway - Paris Review,...
H: It would be impossible for me to make generalizations about a shelf of novels or a wisp of snipe or a gaggle of geese. I’ll try a generalization though. A writer without a sense of justice andof injustice would be better off editing the yearbook of a school forexceptional children than writing novels. Another generalization. You see, they are not so difficult when they are sufficiently obvious....