February 2012
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“I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life...”
– Emma Thompson (via theprobablestars)
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“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.”
– Neil Gaiman (via thenocturnals)
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Apple
Friends don’t hear the future
they are of the belief that one should live sweet and sour
A broken barrow and a lantern take leave of the Friday market
A flowery serving dish and a few saucers the new year breaks and a knife peels the future
Mehrdad Arefani Translation: Abol Froushan
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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”
– Aristotle (via thatkindofwoman)
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“It’s important in life if you don’t give a shit. It can help you a lot.”
– George Carlin (cf.)
“Everyone lives differently. When you go somewhere out of your own comfort zone,...”
– Jeffrey Azize, The Human Experience (via iloseallmysweaters)
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“If you don’t know what you want, you end up with a lot you don’t.”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club (via thatkindofwoman)
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“Grammar is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit.”
– My flammable roommate’s fabulous writing professor (via commodore-sparklebutt)
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“Don’t aim for anything — collect meaningful stuff… [E]veryone is in a rush to...”
– danielleh in response to Zan’s post about fuckyournoguchicoffeetable (cf. Billy Wilder)
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“She writes like she’s starving and reads like she’s feasting.”
– R.D. Larson (via tiportiff)
“Why did he write to her,
“I can’t live without you”?
And why did she write to...”
– Carl Sandburg (via mocasia)
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“What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.”
– Ellen Glasgow (via thingsandschemes)
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“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing...”
– Jessica Hische (via neuewave)
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“We expect too much from January and not enough from February.”
– @mlarson (via austinkleon)
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“If my life was a novel, it would be a best seller. No one would put it down.”
– Snejana Onopka (via musingsinfemininity)
alfredosays asked: What are your favorite kind of flowers?
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“People change and forget to tell each other.”
– Lillian Hellman (via creatingaquietmind)
January 2012
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“I was raised to be charming, not sincere.”
– Stephen Sondheim (via thingsandschemes)
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“What’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via thingsandschemes)
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That Kind Of Woman: John Steinbeck on Falling in... →
thatkindofwoman:
New York November 10, 1958
Dear Thom: We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers. First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light…
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