June 2009
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“Hope? Oh yes, there is hope - infinite hope. But not for us.”
– Franz Kafka (via mandyjanerose) (via barelysarcasm)
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May 2009
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May 14th
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James Joyce's Letters to His Wife
mikeypizzle:christinefriar:[via ragbag] The following excerpt is from a dirty love letter that James Joyce wrote his wife Nora 99 years ago (Dec 8, 1909). My sweet little whorish Nora I did as you told me, you dirty little girl, and pulled myself off twice when I read your letter. I am delighted to see that you do like being fucked arseways. Yes, now I can remember that night when I fucked...
May 14th
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“He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via astronomie) (via atoms) (via unicornology) (via jessicachu) (via alphalux) (via justlikeacold) (via misstumblarity) (via dogganghappened)
May 11th
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“The rain was still falling, but the darkness had parted in the west, and there...”
– The Great Gatsby (via scout)
May 6th
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“James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an...”
– Samuel Beckett (via jorgerodriguez)
May 5th
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“Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel Beckett (via mehtevas)
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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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“I am in love - and, my God, it is the greatest thing that can happen to a man. I...”
– D.H Lawrence (via blenky119)
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“My God, these folks don’t know how to love — that’s why they love so easily.”
– D.H. Lawrence (via kaylynashley)
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“Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the...”
– D. H. Lawrence (via laceandlilac)
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“If you take the moon in your hands And turn it round (heavy, slightly,...”
– Hilda Doolittle (H.D.) (via fables)
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“An important chapter in the history of Anglo-American poetry began at a...”
– Winter Love, by Jacob Korg (via malamujer)
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“Don’t be descriptive; remember that the painter can describe a landscape much...”
– Ezra Pound, A Few Don’ts by an Imagiste (via lostincreation)
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“All my life I believed I knew something. But then one strange day came when I...”
– Ezra Pound (via kayvahn)
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“It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via backyard)
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“There are no second acts in American lives.”
– F Scott Fitzgerald. (via weeeimanniee)
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“Zelda to F. Scott Fitzgerald, in their youth before they got married. ...”
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May 5th
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F.Scott Fitzgerald's advice to daughter Scottie...
megwhite: “Worry about courage. Worry about cleanliness. Worry about efficiency. Worry about horsemanship. Don’t worry about popular opinion. Don’t worry about doll. Don’t worry about the past. Don’t worry about the future. Don’t worry about growing up. Don’t worry about anyone getting ahead of you. Don’t worry about triumph. Don’t worry about failure unless it comes through your own...
May 5th
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“Nothing is as obnoxious as other people’s luck.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald  (via ventisette)
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Two of my favorite writers met once
johnhendel: It was 1922 and James Joyce showed up to the party late. He looked shabby so began drinking heavily, which he was still involved in when Marcel Proust strolled in dressed in a fur coat… …Joyce said, “I’ve headaches every day. My eyes are terrible.” Proust replied, “My poor stomach. What am I going to do? It’s killing me. In fact, I must leave at once.” “I’m in the same situation,”...
May 4th
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“Once in one of those casual conversations you have when you’re drinking, Joyce...”
– Ernest Hemingway, in Richard Ellman’s James Joyce (via marginalgloss)
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Writers' obsessions
chillifrog: James Joyce - Farts I’ve written about his addictions before, but I’m strangely fascinated with his fascination. Although they didn’t really diagnose sex addiction at the time, I bet if James Joyce was around today he would be classified as one. He wrote hundreds of letters to his lover, Nora (who later became his wife), and spared no expense in the detail of what he wanted the two...
May 4th
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“SOPHIST WALLOPS HAUGHTY HELEN SQUARE ON PROBOSCIS. SPARTANS GNASH MOLARS....”
– James Joyce, Ulysses. (via zivilization)
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“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via porkandbeef)
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“Don’t despair, not even over the fact that you don’t despair.”
– Franz Kafka (via animosa)
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“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do...”
– Franz Kafka (via 3-of-spades)
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“I want to be cured of a craving for something I cannot find and of the shame of...”
– The Cocktail Party, T. S. Eliot (via sjuhye)
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