January 2011
56 posts
“You are free, so choose; in other words, invent. No general code of ethics can...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via human-voices)
“How nice — to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via -lesfleurs)
“Great poets are not necessarily Girl Guides nor scoutmasters nor splendid...”
– Hemingway, The Paris Review (1958)
“If a writer stops observing he is finished.”
– Hemingway, The Paris Review (1958)
“I do believe that there’s no meaning to our lives except for that which we...”
– Stephen Dunn (via wearebasiclight)
“It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in...”
– Octavio Paz (via wearebasiclight)
“For Attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via quote-book)
“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if shes late? Nobody.”
– The Catcher In The Rye, J. D. Salinger
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(via aacissej)
“Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and...”
– Andrew Jackson (via nathanielstuart)
“I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be...”
– Amy Poehler (via thatswhatshesaidquotes)
“I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see...”
– (via photographic-energy)
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel and a comedy to those who think.”
– Horace Walpole
“What do you fear, lady”? he asked. “A cage,” she said. “To stay behind bars,...”
– The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (via quote-book)
“Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a...”
– Eugene O’Neill
(via starryeyedartist)
“Spirituality means waking up. Most people, even though they don’t know it, are...”
– Anthony de Mello (via honeyblood)
“Humanity is now faced with a stark choice: Evolve or die. … If the structures of...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via zealotry)
“Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely...”
– Marilyn Monroe (via kari-shma)
“If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way...”
– Mary Engelbreit (via quote-book)
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
– Oscar Wilde (via kari-shma)
“It’s good to be just plain happy, it’s a little better to know that you’re...”
– Henry Miller (via wearebasiclight)
“One of my goals is to tear people away from the internet, because I think it is...”
– Andrew Vanwyngarden (via andrewsaidwut) (via pdaervo)
Very true.
(via misswallflower)
“I know that books don’t save lives on the grand scale. They don’t end wars and...”
– Rob Roberge: The TNB Self-Interview (via synecdoche)