March 2012
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“I want a warm bath too much to worry about the importance of my work or what...”
– The Beautiful and Damned, F Scott Fitzgerald (via lowqu0tations)
took a indefinite break from writing descriptive bibliographies
to make curry and drink champagne
because i have a black eye and im depressed
February 2012
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via seabois)
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“Oh, if only I did nothing simply as a result of laziness. Lord, how I’d respect...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky in Notes From Underground (via admiralobvious)
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“I’m so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers.”
– L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables (via seabois)
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“She wanted to die, but she also wanted to live in Paris.”
– Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via seabois)
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“I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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“If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty...”
– Evelyn Waugh (via misswallflower)
“oh god it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke...”
– (via redvelvetteacake)
frank o’hara makes me want a boyyfren
“The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your...”
– Oscar Wilde (via seabois)
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it’s sleepy rainy out and i just want to read and drink a million coffees.
but instead i’m going back to work. at least it’s a good place to watch a storm come in.
Snow Moon, Leah Mooney
kathleenjoy:
Tonight, breaking shells from boiled eggs, my thumbs are red-tender. Beyond this kitchen window the moon fills with blood, grows heavy like a plum as it falls. It is no longer a moon, though that is the closest name left. All we have are names. Moon, snow, egg. I say thumb, but when I hold it in the light, what I am saying to you is see how tender I have become? Even the eggshells...
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oldfilmsflicker:
Woody Allen adapting “Bullets Over Broadway” for musical - WPIX
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - Woody Allen’s 1994 film “Bullets Over Broadway” explored the travails of an aspiring playwright struggling to bring his creation to the Great White Way. And now, in a possible case of art imitating, um, art, Allen is working on a musical adaptation of the...
“A child looking at ruins grows younger
but cold
and wants to wake to a new...”
– The Love of October, W.S. Merwin
(via grammatolatry)
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Summer surprised us, coming over the Starnbergersee With a shower of rain; we stopped in the colonnade, And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour. Bin gar keine Russin, stamm’ aus Litauen, echt deutsch. And when we were children, staying at the archduke’s, My cousin’s, he took me out on a sled, And I was frightened. He said, Marie,...
“A day or two after the trip Scott brought his book over. It had a garish dust...”
– Ernest Hemingway’s review of The Great Gatsby in A Moveable Feast
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missing san francisco
hazy slopy mystery town.
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