May 2012
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I’m not picky. As long as she’s smart, pretty, and sweet, and gentle, and...
– The Sundance Kid
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And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack Up (via theeternalsea)
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To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.
– Chuck Palahniuk, ‘Snuff’ (via mixtapeconversation)
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April 2012
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The Emigrant Irish
Like oil lamps, we put them out the back,
of our houses, of our minds. We had lights better than, newer than and then
a time came, this time and now we need them. Their dread, makeshift example.
They would have thrived on our necessities. What they survived we could not even live. By their lights now it is time to imagine how they stood there, what they stood with, that their possessions may...
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I haven’t read novels except for all of the Patrick O’Brian series. It was,...
– E.O. Wilson, interviewed in the Boston Globe (via wwnorton)
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This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was...
– Colum McCann
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It was especially intense to see Pulp crash America after a weekend with two...
– Rob Sheffield’s review of Pulp’s Radio City Music Hall gig. (via mixtapes)
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One of the sturdiest precepts of the study of human delusion is that every...
– The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon (via tellthecattochill)
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Self-pity is easily the most destructive of the non-pharmaceutical narcotics; it...
– John W. Gardner (via iheartloons)
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Nostalgia is, by its very nature, bittersweet, the happiest memories laced with...
– Walk Like a Man: Coming of Age with the Music of Bruce Springsteen by Robert J. Wiersema (via johnnydontcry)
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