"If she did wild or wicked things, it is because she could not help them."
— The Old Man and the Sea Ernest Hemingway
(Source: kampfmude, via thatkindofwoman)
April 23, 2012
February 25, 2012
"I also take the view that it’s a mistake to try and look younger than one is, and that the face in particular ought to be the register of a properly lived life. I don’t want to look as if I have been piloting the Concorde without a windshield, and I can’t imagine whom I would be fooling if I did."
— Christopher Hitchens on the limits of self-improvement
(Source: hitch-22)
February 23, 2012
"Oh I know we’re not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t."
— Dylan Thomas, November or December 1936
From The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas
(Source: liquidnight)
February 9, 2012
February 9, 2012
"I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of publishing. The first, of course, is ransom notes."
— Philip Dusenberry (1936-2007), U.S. advertising executive.
(Source: noahshark)
February 2, 2012
January 21, 2012
In the midst of winter I found, within me, an invincible summer.
Albert Camus
(Source: indreamsittouches)
January 5, 2012
"I’m not brave any more darling. I’m all broken. They’ve broken me."
— Ernest Hemingway (A Farewell to Arms)
(Source: blaqmagic, via philo-sofia)
December 22, 2011
"Even if what you’re working on doesn’t go anywhere, it will help you with the next thing you’re doing. Make yourself available for something to happen. Give it a shot."
— Cormac McCarthy
(Source: mostserindipitous, via vineetkaur)
December 21, 2011
"The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
— Ernest Hemingway
(Source: seventeenreasonstolive, via thatkindofwoman)
November 28, 2011
"Coding is the new Latin. We need to give kids a proper understanding of computers if they’re to compete for all kinds of jobs."
— Alex Hope | BBC News
(via roomthily)
November 26, 2011
"I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able to take charge of me entirely. No one knows me or loves me completely. I have only myself."
— Simone de Beauvoir
(Source: misswallflower, via blua)
November 23, 2011
"No disease or age makes the flesh unwind
but some strange unity of flesh and mind.
Your body’s like those ships men must empty
of gold and oil to ride an unweaned sea,
boat of rib and skin, nothing that can bleed
or seas can suck or even death could need,
proving through the stark holds you bear and bring
that the voyage itself was everything."
but some strange unity of flesh and mind.
Your body’s like those ships men must empty
of gold and oil to ride an unweaned sea,
boat of rib and skin, nothing that can bleed
or seas can suck or even death could need,
proving through the stark holds you bear and bring
that the voyage itself was everything."
— Leonard Cohen, 1962
November 23, 2011
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November 20, 2011
Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed
Lie still, sleep becalmed, sufferer with the wound
In the throat, burning and turning. All night afloat
On the silent sea we have heard the sound
That came from the wound wrapped in the salt sheet.
Under the mile off moon we trembled listening
To the sea sound flowing like blood from the loud wound
And when the salt sheet broke in a storm of singing
The voices of all the drowned swam on the wind.
Open a pathway through the slow sad sail,
Throw wide to the wind the gates of the wandering boat
For my voyage to begin to the end of my wound,
We heard the sea sound sing, we saw the salt sheet tell.
Lie still, sleep becalmed, hide the mouth in the throat,
Or we shall obey, and ride with you through the drowned.
-Dylan Thomas
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