January 2012
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“I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via fydestinyhope)
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“What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory - meaning a...”
– William Maxwell, So Long, See You Tomorrow (via brighteryellow)
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“I’m lonely. And I’m lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an...”
– Augusten Burroughs, Dry (via nikoledarling)
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“And you could say my name like you knew my name.”
– Cat Power, “Colors and the Kids”
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“I fell into the water, now I’m free.”
– Laura Marling, “The Captain and the Hourglass”
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“To look life in the face. Always to look life in the face and to know it for...”
– Michael Cunningham, The Hours
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“I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon,...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via wistless)
The Oscar nominations are a joke.
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“Perfect at times, but also so damn destructive.”
– Black Swan
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“The earth is explicable - from her we came, and we must return to her.”
– E.M. Forster, Howard’s End
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“Why do you leave everyone? Why did you let me go?”
– Beginners
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weekend
Glen: Well, you know what it's like when you first sleep with someone you don't know?
Russell: Yes.
Glen: It's... you, like, become this blank canvas and it gives you an opportunity to project onto that canvas who you want to be. That's what's interesting because everybody does that.
Russell: So do you think I did that?
Glen: 'Cause you did. Well, what happens is while you're projecting who you want to be... this gap opens up between who you want to be and who you really are. And in that gap, it shows you what's stopping you becoming who you want to be.
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“I used to be so dreamy about a man’s love as a girl, and think that for...”
– E.M. Forster, Howard’s End
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New Track: Andrew Bird - Eyeoneye
thelastpython:
We finally have our first official taste of the new Andrew Bird LP Break It Yourself. The album will be out 3/6 on Mom + Pop.
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“We lay on our backs, looking at the ceiling and wondering what God had wrought...”
– Jack Kerouac (via iamapatientboy)
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“It’s a small crime and I’ve got no excuse.”
– Damien Rice, “9 Crimes”
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“I am frightened when I am alone and I am frightened when I am with people. The...”
– Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
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“Whatever goes up must come down and I was ten miles high.”
– Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
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“For a long time I couldn’t remember anything. All I knew was that...”
– Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
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“You live in terror of not being misunderstood.”
– Velvet Goldmine