janvier 2010
“My grandmother said when she was young
The grass was so wild and high
You...”
– Frank Stanford, Weariness of Men (via thesemightysecrets) (via airwalker) (via leprintemps)
“What happened was, I got the idea in my head—and I could not get it...”
– franny and zooey, jd salinger
any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day...
“As Howard Zinn has often pointed out, history told from above — from the...”
– Viggo Mortensen (via azspot) (via rosasparks) (via telegantmess) (via jadedhippy)
OH HAI VIGGO. you’re not only gorgeous, you’re smart, talented, and Down for the Cause. And your reading of IWW speeches and fluent Spanish in The People Speak had me squealing.
(I have discovered the problem with...
“I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
– Notes from Underground (via dostoyevsky)
“I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via metallicmoon) (via mudblood)
J.D. Salinger, 91, is dead. →
(via durian)
“I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations...”
– George Orwell (“Why I Write,” A Collection of Essays) (via moviescriptendings) (via breathsoftruth) (via isthisblood) (via pretty-bird)
“One summer she goes into the field as usual
stopping for a bit at the pool...”
– a myth of innocence, louise glück
“It happens to you, doesn’t it? Hatred for the world, which will very cheerfully...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via suzywire) (via arrachecoeur) (via canadawhore)
“What’s great about how our beauty oppression operates is white women can still...”
– Snarkysmachine - Black Women Need Not Apply @ Kate Harding’s Shapely Prose (via tiredofbeingignored) (via oscillating)
Agreed, and how white women respond to having this pointed out to them for the first time is revealing about what people understand beauty to mean beyond “hotness”.
(via...
“I loved you. I was a pentapod monster, but I loved you. I was despicable and...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via armoiries) (via vlah-dee-mer)
“The radio announcer admitted to drizzle as the majestic airship,
a bloated...”
– The Current Events Poem: Hindenburg and the Twin Towers, Julianna Baggott
“When Hades decided he loved this girl
he built for her a duplicate of earth,...”
– a myth of devotion, louise glück
“No butler, no second maid, no blood upon the stair.
No eccentric aunt, no...”
– crime club, weldon kees
“The key word for me (my spleen isn’t really big enough to explode with all the...”
– Stephen Fry (via fuckyeahstephenfry)
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
– Albert Camus French existentialist author & philosopher (1913 - 1960) (via prunelle)
He had Mozart, and now who does he have?
bunnymitford:
What the Greeks were saying is that we have divine fire, whatever is divine is in us, as humans. We are as good as the Gods. The Gods are capricious and mean and foolish and stupid and jealous and rapine and all the things that Greek mythology show us that they are. And Shelley quite rightly understood that mythological idea, that the champion of real humanity and of real humanism,...
a revolution without dancing is a revolution not...
