April 2009
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“In Harlem, the Bronx, Gramercy Park, and along the water-fronts, in little...”
– The Beautiful and Damned, F. Scott Fitzgerald, (via quirkyrocket)
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“It’s strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling...”
– T.S. Eliot (via carinaavila)
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“He had taken the most violent, if the weakest, method to shield himself from the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via thoughtsdetained)
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“Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are...”
– Samuel Beckett (via skylinesandshipwrecks)
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“The world breaks us all. Afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via thresca) (via enamour) (via alwaysregal)
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“‘Sit like we do,’ she whispered.
He sat in the big chair and held out his arms...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
thoughtsdetained | thiswillhurt | maddieness
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“Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you...”
– Ernest Hemingway (via yummiedummie)
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“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via krissyfax)
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“I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect....”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via victoryblues)
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“Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgiastic future that year by year...”
– The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald (via liftyrskinnyfists)
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
– Virginia Woolf (via bonjouralexander) (via kari-shma) (via songsforamixtape)
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Joyce (, James -- not Carol Oates)
kevinlongrie:
So I’ve begun Ulysses. And I love it. It also makes me feel accomplished even reading tiny passages. I also feel great when I GET a reference he’s making, like a recent one about Yeats. Good thing I know my Irish poetry.
In an undergrad Foundations of Modernism class, a typical jock boy walked into class and looked at a classmate’s copy of Ulysses sitting in front of her. He...
emilying:
This is the only school lesson I’ve enjoyed doing since I’ve been in school.
One principle we associate with Modernism is the belief that reality is subjective. What does that mean? Think of traditional culture as a lens through which we try to see the world as it truly is. In the 19th century, the theorists Freud, Einstein, Darwin, and Marx represented counterpoints to accepted...
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4 Audio Books by Virginia Woolf →
ipodbooks:
Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English novelist and essayist, regarded as one of the foremost modernist literary figures of the twentieth century.
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“I don’t believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is...”
– T. S. Eliot (via room511)
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T. S. Eliot's rejection letter of George Orwell's... →
staticred:
I can’t see any reason of prudence or caution to prevent anybody from publishing this book - if he believed what it stands for.
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“we shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to...”
– T.S. Eliot (via ahaidaris)
“You are the music while the music lasts.”
– T. S. Eliot (via justanotherdreamer)
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“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald’s “The Crack-Up” (via carmelsegal)
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Beckett's Correspondence 1929-40 Published →
whisperthought:
Our renewed appreciation of this strange, wounded writer — a relentless artist and kindly man — has been abetted by a stream of extraordinary publications. There’s “Hugh Kenner’s foundational criticism, of course, and two excellent, relatively recent biographies, James Knowlson’s magisterial “Damned to Fame” and Anthony Cronin’s very Irish “Samuel Beckett: The Last Modernist.”...
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the adventures of james joyce & samuel beckett
ragbag:
Once or twice Joyce dictated a bit of Finnegans Wake to Samuel Beckett, though dictation did not work very well for him; in the middle of one such session there was a knock at the door that Beckett didn’t hear. Joyce said, ‘Come in,’ and Beckett wrote it down. Afterwards he read back what he had written and Joyce said, ‘What’s that “Come in”?’ ‘Yes, you said that, ’ said Beckett. Joyce...
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“If you enjoy it, you understand it.”
– Gertrude Stein
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ::... →
philosoraptor:
“This is a hypertextual, self-referential edition of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce.”
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