February 2012
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“The way she finally concluded that something was wrong with her was: either...”
– “Adult World (I),” by David Foster Wallace (from Brief Interviews with Hideous Men) (via apassageaway)
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“Of course one does talk. But,” and he was grave again, “one does make far too many concessions to the need to communicate.”
“What do you mean?”
“All the time when I speak to you, even now, I’m saying not precisely what I think, but what will impress you and make you respond. That’s so even between us - and how much more it’s so where...
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I know that nothing consoles and nothing justifies except a story - but that doesn’t stop all stories from being lies. Only the greatest men can speak and still be truthful. Any artist knows this obscurely; he knows that a theory is death, and that all expression is weighted with theory. Only the strongest can rise against that weight. For most of us, for almost all of us, truth can be...
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twenty-seven:
“Later she wasn’t so positive perhaps; she thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist’s religion of doing good for the sake of goodness. And of course she enjoyed life immensely. It was her nature to enjoy (though goodness only knows, she had her reserves; it was a mere sketch, he often felt, that even he, after all these years, could make of...
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“[T]he thinking mind is best controlled by the imagination.”
– Carson McCullers, born today in 1917. (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
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Empty Room / Arcade Fire
My life is coming but...
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“Look within and life, it seems, is very far from being ‘like this’. Examine for...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Common Reader (via karmadance)
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Modern Man / Arcade Fire
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“I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction’s job was to comfort the...”
– (via tietheeagle)
Future starts slow
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Watch(via blueinkmusic)
“oh mama how far i’ve come”
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“He takes the lights of his beacons as much for granted as the sailor does the...”
– Roger Fry / Transformations.
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“All these things happen in one second and last for ever.”
– The Waves, Virginia Woolf (via likeabreadstick)
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“All she wished was that this enormous flood of grief, this insatiable hunger for...”
– Virginia Woolf, To The Lighthouse. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
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Watchjamieandalisonshenanigans:
The Kills 10th Anniversary Show
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Leonard Woolf about the Bloomsbury Group, Virginia...
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“As I’m sure you guys know by now, it is extremely difficult to stay alert...”
