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.”
– (via wwnorton)
“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...