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
booktumbling:
printedandbound:
“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