January 2012
14 posts
2 tags
Jan 6th
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“One must not touch one’s idols, a little of the gilt always comes off on...”
– -Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary
Jan 6th
12 notes
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“But enough! enough! I can’t take anymore. Bad air! Bad air! This workshop...”
– -Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Geneology of Morals
Jan 4th
1 note
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“Clarissa had a theory in those days— they had heaps of theories, always...”
– -Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway The stuff resolutions are born from.
Jan 3rd
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December 2011
14 posts
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Dec 23rd
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“History is everywhere. It seeps into the soil, the subsoil. Like rain, or hail,...”
– -Edna O’Brien, House of Splendid Isolation
Dec 23rd
3 notes
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“You told me once that spring makes you feel as if you’ve lost or forgotten...”
– -Viktor Shklovsky, ZOO, or Letters Not About Love I’m getting a bit tired of this unseasonable weather.
Dec 21st
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“Every man with a keen eye is familiar with those anonymously retold passages...”
– -Vladimir Nabokov, Despair The more you say it, the more it feels like just a story—not your story.
Dec 19th
11 notes
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Dec 16th
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“It is so difficult—at least, I find it difficult—to understand...”
– -E. M. Forster, A Room with a View Ending the week with a bit of humor.
Dec 16th
1 note
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“Men of profound sadness betray themselves when they are happy: they have a way...”
– -Friedrich Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
Dec 14th
33 notes
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“The lover can see, and the knowledgeable.”
– -Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Dec 12th
16 notes
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Dec 9th
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“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a...”
– -Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Dec 9th
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“We had stopped at the floor our rooms were on. She went straight down the hall...”
– -Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises To me, this is what intimacy is.
Dec 7th
6 notes
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“All plots tend to move deathward. This is the nature of plots. Political plots,...”
– -Don DeLillo, White Noise
Dec 5th
13 notes
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Dec 2nd
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“…she deserves a finer destiny than to pass from belated adolescence to premature...”
– -Truman Capote, “New York” This week I had a bit of a theme going. I’ve decided to end it by getting a little real.
Dec 2nd
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November 2011
16 posts
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“The languor of Youth—how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how...”
– -Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited
Nov 30th
16 notes
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“The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all...”
– -Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado
Nov 28th
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