March 2012
“I am well and weaving things
that will eventually change this scene.”
– Robert Adamson, from “The Landscape” (via the-final-sentence)
“Summer is over and
we part, like eyelids,
like clams opening.”
–
Robert Hass, “Basho: A Departure”
(via the-final-sentence)
“If you stand
there long enough the air will thicken
with dusk and...”
– Philip Levine, from “How to Get There” (via proustitute)
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“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil Degrasse Tyson, in an AMA on reddit, responding to a young man who asked how to find motivation in life. (via missmala)
February 2012
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
– C.S Lewis (St. Augustine)
1 tag
“[What is the carol for that?
Is it the song of nevertheless,
or of the empire...”
– Jack Gilbert, from “What Song Should We Sing” (via the-final-sentence)
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via emotional-algebra)
“Then the music takes us, the music rolls away the years, and we dance.”
– Stephen King, 11.22.63 (thank you, jonscofer)
“You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It’s...”
– Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night
““What is human memory?” Manning asked. He gazed at the air as he spoke, as...”
– arthur c. clarke
“(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other...”
– julio cortazar.
“In the end, nothing else differentiates me from the people among whom I pass my...”
– Jean Amery- At The Mind’s Limits: Contemplations By A Survivor On Auschwitz And Its Realities. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“A dancer who relies upon the doubtful comforts of human love can never be a...”
– Boris Lermontov (Anton Walbrook). The Red Shoes. (via alltherestispropaganda)
1 tag
“We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in...”
– Cesare Pavese, The Burning Brand: Diaries, 1935-1950
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“The time is ripe for looking back over the day, the week, the year, and trying...”
– Frederick Buechner, A Room Called Remember: Uncollected Pieces
“Though I play at the edges of knowing,
truly I know
our part is not knowing,...”
– Mary Oliver, from “Bone” (via the-final-sentence)
“[Tatie was dead. There was nothing Paul could possibly do for me except let me...”
– Paula McLain, The Paris Wife (thank you, pinkcloudpaper)
“I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over.
And what did I see I had...”
– Edna St. Vincent Millay, from “Wild Swans” (via proustitute)
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“Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies”
– Julio Cortazar
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“Memory is a funny thing. When I was in the scene, I hardly paid it any mind. I...”
– Norwegian Wood, Haruki Murakami
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“A good snapshot keeps a moment from running away”
– Eudora Welty
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“Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
inothernews:
If there’s one thing I appreciate about Glee, it’s the cast’s ability to make us realize that even lightly-regarded pop music has some decent lyrics when enhanced by great vocals and not drowned out by instruments.
“Of all your old photographs, I wanted
this one for its becoming. I think
you...”
– Gabeba Baderoon, from “Old Photographs” (via proustitute)
“[A miracle, just take a look around:
the world is everywhere.]
An additional...”
– Wisława Szymborska, from “A Miracle” (via the-final-sentence)