September 2010
1 post
“I’m interested only in expressing basic human emotions: tragedy, ecstasy, doom,...”
June 2010
3 posts
“I thought about life, about my life, the embarrassments, the little coincidences, the shadows of alarm clocks on bedside tables, I thought about my small victories and everything I’d seen destroyed. I’d swum through mink coats on my parents’ bed while they hosted downstairs, I’d lost the only person with whom I could have spent my only life, I’d left behind a thousand tonnes of marble...
“The Pains of Being Pure at Heart”
– Pitchfork: Staff Lists: The Top 100 Tracks of 2009
“My life seemed to be a series of events and accidents. Yet when I look back I...”
– but does it float
February 2010
1 post
at the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise.. that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd. -albert camus
January 2010
5 posts
“But there is always next week.”
– Lobster and Swan
“Leave the dishes.
Let the celery rot in the bottom drawer of the refrigerator...”
“Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was:...”
– Women by Charles Bukowski
“Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised...”
“Do you believe in always, the wind
said to the rain
I am too busy with
my...”
December 2009
3 posts
“The longer I live, the less I trust ideas, the more I trust emotions....”
– nearer the moon
shitgaze:
The chickens are circling and blotting out the day. The sun is bright, but the chickens are in the way. Yes, the sky is dark with chickens, dense with them. They turn and then they turn again. These are the chickens you let loose one at a time and small — various breeds. Now they have come home to roost—all the same kind at the same speed.
November 2009
6 posts
“There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the...”
– Alexandre Dumas (The Count of Monte Cristo)
“Why is it considered the height of civilization to work 8 to 10 hours a day in a...”
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge...”
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity....”
– mystery
October 2009
9 posts
“Dangerous Writing” is an approach to writing championed by...”
– Tom Spanbauer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“You can always cope with the Now, but you can never cope with the future - nor...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via calidre) (via quote-book) (via longlivethequeen)
Berlusconi →
“So if I asked you about art, you’d probably give me the skinny on every art book...”
– Good Will Hunting (via sheema) (via heleveeta) (via filmquotes)
“If we believe in the idea of democracy that means we believe in the worth and...”
– Paul Auster (via flourhoneymilk)
September 2009
16 posts
“It’s the people who hug you and never want to let go, the people who you haven’t...”
– (via staree) (via lovelybluepony)
“Generally speaking, the significance of the indirect results may very often be...”
– but does it float
“ Look, other bands, they want to make it about sex or pain, but you know, The...”
– flour, honey and milk
August 2009
13 posts
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge...”
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