September 2012
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“At these moments, which are characterised by the sudden lifting of the burden of...”
– T. S. Eliot on the mystical quality of creativity (via explore-blog)
November 2011
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come on guyzs modernism isn’t that bad. it’s pretty good!
June 2010
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James Joyce Is Too Dirty for the iPad →
mattpayton:
Apple is pretty quickly turning into those Gen-Xers who pretty easily became just as lame and corporate as their Boomer parents.
If you’re not on an iPad, check out the website that turns Ulysses into a comic at http://www.ulyssesseen.com/
April 2010
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February 2010
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December 2009
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November 2009
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“Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.”
– Hemingway (via youmightfindyourself) (via turiyanaut) (via savagejen)
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October 2009
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“… toward the satisfactory inexpensiveness of nowhere.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via nevver) (via unbornwhiskey)
September 2009
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August 2009
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July 2009
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“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
– Ernest Hemingway (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via robynbartlett)
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June 2009
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“Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a...”
– James Joyce (via notulysses)
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The Dead
whokilled:
by James Joyce
She leaned lightly on his arm, as lightly as when she had danced with him a few hours before. He had felt proud and happy then, happy that she was his, proud of her grace and wifely carriage. But now, after the kindling again of so many memories, the first touch of her body, musical and strange and perfumed, sent through him a keen pang of lust. Under cover of her...
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The typist's tale of 'Last Tycoon' - Los Angeles... →
theslowlearner:
picture by Susan Farley / For The LA Times
It was April 1939, and Frances Ring was 22, a Bronx transplant with typing and dictation skills. She’d been in Southern California for a little more than a year, coming west to help her father, a New York furrier, set up shop on Wilshire Boulevard. “Everybody said, ‘You’re a furrier? What are you doing in Southern California?’ ” Ring...
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“She refused to be bored, chiefly because she wasn’t boring.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via were-all-mad-here)
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“I don’t want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.”
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via maritessrivera)
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“I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to...”
– Zelda Fitzgerald (via explorers)
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“I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.”
– Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via exexistential)
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“’ You are free and that is why you are lost. ‘”
– Franz Kafka (via lapetitebaobab)
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“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the...”
– Franz Kafka (via klammerauf)
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I think we ought to read only the kind of books...
daieny:
Franz Kafka
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“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it....”
– Franz Kafka (via colinweaver)
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“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via cheapchampagnee) 