March 2012
February 2012
“Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been...”
– Joan Didion, in her 1976 New York Times article, “Why I Write,” (full PDF), which begins: “Of course I stole the title from this talk, from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write… I stole the title not only because the words sounded right but because...
“…I remember something Louis Armstrong once said, after being asked to give his...”
– Patton Oswalt, in a new column for SPIN (via andrewmcclain)
truth. truth.
“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.”
– Neil Gaiman (via akidnamedcudi)
“This morning, with her, having coffee.”
– Johnny Cash, when asked for his definition of paradise. (via banabanana)
why he’s a badass.
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So, I just bought my Odd Future Tickets for April...
“We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns...”
– Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (via libraryland)
#hero.
“Rick Santorum is the new frontrunner for the Republican nomination, leading...”
– STEPHEN COLBERT, The Colbert Report (via inothernews)
“I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire...”
–
E. B. White
(via iamtheblender)
“My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood...”
– James Joyce (via iamtheblender)
“The Church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned,
what...”
– T. S. Eliot, from “Choruses from the Rock” (via proustitute)
