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....