February 2012
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The sun’s a thief, and with his great attraction
Robs the vast sea: the...
– Shakespeare: Timone of Athens 4.3
I shall continue to exist. I may assume other disguises, other forms, but I...
– Vladimir Nabokov (via junkyardblues)
Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that...
– Evelyn Waugh (via durianquotes)
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And you, naive sheep: you bleat and follow a God who is going to eat you… And...
– The Last Temptation of Christ, Nikos Kazantzakis (via stateomaine)
If you are a man of learning, fight in the skull, kill ideas and create new...
– Nikos Kazantzakis (via edwinurena)
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If all your exes are vengeful…you are the common denominator
– Dan Savage
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In a fit of enthusiastic madness I created a rational creature and was bound...
– Mary Shelley: Frankenstein vol.3 ch.7
All photographs are accurate, none of them are true.
– Richard Avedon (via mainlyanalogue)
The future of books is the future.
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Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow...
– Neil Gaiman (via rareandunseen)
Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been...
– Joan Didion, in her 1976 New York Times article, “Why I Write,” (full PDF), which begins: “Of course I stole the title from this talk, from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write… I stole the title not only because the words sounded right but because...