December 2011
8 posts
“There was a woman
I made love to and I remembered how, holding
her small...”
– Robert Hass, Meditation at Lagunitas
“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people’s lives.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald — Tender is the Night (via sarzha)
“Russian critics have noted that Chekhov’s style, his choice of words and so on,...”
– Vladimir Nabokov on Anton Chekhov in his lectures on Russian literature (via littlepotato)
“Emotions, in my experience, aren’t covered by single words. I don’t believe in...”
– Middlesex, Jeffrey Eugenides (via whydoihaveablog)
November 2011
1 post
“Write with nouns and verbs, not with adjectives and adverbs. The adjective...”
– William Strunk and E.B. White, The Elements of Style, 1959
October 2011
9 posts
“But we were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed...”
– Robert Ardrey
“You built a factory out there? Good for you. But I want to be clear: you moved...”
– Elizabeth Warren (via mykicks)
Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while...
1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald.
2. “Fortune” is a word for having a lot of money and for having a lot of luck, but that does not mean the word has two definitions.
3. Money is like a child—rarely unaccompanied. When...
“‘Russians aren’t keen on psychiatry,’ Vladimir explained. ‘Sadness is our burden...”
– The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, Gary Shteyngart (via natface)
“It would…be a beautiful thing to pass through life together hypnotized in...”
– Pierre Curie, in a letter to Marie Curie
September 2011
2 posts
“Having a crush means being utterly miserably dejected and completely filled with...”
– Ira Glass
August 2011
7 posts
“I ignored inconvenient subtexts, the meaning behind the meaning: that someone...”
– Katha Pollitt
“We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed,...”
– Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient
“I’m over with being polite to boring people”
– Shirley MacLaine
smut-to-go:
I like you much. I like knowing the feel of your maleness and your laugh — Georgia O’Keeffe to Jean Toomer (via)
July 2011
1 post
“Summer makes you do crazy things, of course. It makes you want to cheat on your...”
– Lucy Morris
June 2011
6 posts
“I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she...”
– Pablo Neruda (via nymphite)
on this father's day
i hope every dude i’ve ever blown thanks mr. horstmann for my daddy issues
May 2011
5 posts
“You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make...”
– Richard Siken
“As a biographer, you see things that the subject never saw. Nabokov writes to...”
– Stacy Schiff
April 2011
9 posts
“Listening to people’s dreams … is like flipping through a stack of photographs;...”
– Dennis Reynolds, It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
“That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best—make it all up—but...”
– Ernest Hemingway, in a letter to friend F. Scott Fitzgerald
april fool's day is for entry-level pranksters and...
March 2011
4 posts
1 tag
the kind of person who writes "you either love me...