December 2011
19 posts
fred-wilson:
Stamp - The Rural Alberta...
“Life is funny sometimes, it can push pretty hard, but if you look close enough...”
– One Tree Hill (via julie911)
Harriet the Hell-Raising Heroine →
nyrbclassics:
From NPR’s All Things Considered:
Next we come to what may be the single most detestable female character ever created: Harriet, the protagonist of Iris Owens’ 1973 novel After Claude. She is arrogant yet horribly insecure; dismissive and contemptuous, yet needy and pathetic. She is disgusted with everyone around her, yet she begs hideously for their acceptance. But even as her...
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via quote-book)
bijan:
Bright Eyes + First Aid Kit - We’re Going...
“That’s one of the worst things about living with brilliant people— they’re so...”
– The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (via quote-book)
“Keep moving—that was his motto. Don’t dwell on things. Don’t stay in one place...”
– Leo, The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan (via quote-book)
“Alone in my heart and alone in my mind. Alone everywhere, all the time, for as...”
– A Million Little Pieces - James Frey (via quote-book)
“The man had killed the thing he loved, and so he had to die
Yet each man kills...”
– from The Ballad of Reading Goal by Oscar Wilde (via thedaysarenotfullenough) (via libraryland, loveintheshadowsistheonlykind)
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People
“We all need someone to look at us. we can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. the first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. the second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. they are the tireless hosts of cocktail...
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Compassion
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
- Milan Kundera, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via beautyisanillusion)
“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world...”
– Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore (via blogut)
