February 2012
20 posts
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“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...”
– On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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“Later — when things happened that they could never have imagined — she wrote him...”
– The History of Love, Nicole Krauss
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“those faces you see every day on
the streets were not created
entirely without...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“She’s beautiful,
but burn all the maps
to your body.
I’m not here
of my own...”
– Excerpt from “The Double-Bed Dream Gallows,” Richard Brautigan
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“Going to another country doesn’t make any difference. I’ve tried all that. You...”
– Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
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Subway Face
tamburina:
That I have been looking For you all my life Does not matter to you. You do not know. You never knew. Nor did I. Now you take the Harlem train uptown; I take a local down.
Langston Hughes
January 2012
35 posts
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“One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men...”
– The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Dharma Bums, Jack Kerouac
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“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
– Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kayse
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“all our days are marked with
unexpected
affronts - some
disastrous, others...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“We find out the heart only by dismantling what
the heart knows. By redefining...”
– “Tear It Down,” Jack Gilbert
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“‘There is a charming quality, is there not,’ he said to me, ‘in this silence;...”
– Marcel Proust, Le Côté de Guermantes, trans. Moncrieff and Kilmartin
the bends
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. frustration that you’re not enjoying an experience as much as you should, even something you’ve worked for years to attain, which prompts you to plug in various thought combinations to try for anything more than static emotional blankness, as if your heart had been accidentally demagnetized by a surge of expectations.
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“In the struggle between yourself and the world, side with the world.”
– Franz Kafka, Aphorism 52 in Unpublished Works 1916-1918
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Stephen Hawking admits he finds women 'a complete... →
snowce:
His career has shed light on the secrets of the universe, from the nature of space-time to the workings of black holes, but there is one conundrum that still baffles the world’s most famous scientist.
In an interview to mark his 70th birthday this weekend, Stephen Hawking, the former Lucasian professor of mathematics at Cambridge University, admitted he spent most of the day thinking...
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