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March 2011
159 posts
“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn’t.”
—Albert Camus (via coven)
February 2011
61 posts
“I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (via narcosis)
“People are fragile things you should know by now. Be careful what you put them through.”
—Munich | The Editors (via winterings)
“Human relationships were strange. i mean you were with one person for a while, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together and then it stopped. then there was a short period when you weren’t with anybody, then another woman arrived, and you ate with her and you fucked her, and it all seemed so normal, as if you had been waiting just for her and she had been waiting for you. i never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”
—Charles Bukowski (via mishsquish, bigtimesmalltime)
Poetry 365: In the Vicinity of Orion's Arm, Linda Nemec Foster →
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“like the star beaming outward past its death”
-Robert Wrigley
Every day we die
a little more.
My young son
doesn’t believe me;
with the telescope
he got for Christmas
he points to the stars,
unfailing lights of the past,
as examples of how difficult
it is to kill anything.
Infinity…
“Without music, life would be a mistake… I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (via jessicachole)
Creep [radiohead cover]
Ingrid Michaelson
Creep (Radiohead cover) - Ingrid Michaelson
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start. This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, and maybe even your mind. It could mean not eating for 3 or 4 days. It could mean freezing on a park bench. It could mean jail. It could mean derision. It could mean mockery, isolation. Isolation is the gift; all the others are a test of your endurance, of how much you really want to do it. And you’ll do it, despite the rejection and the worst odds. And it will be better than anything else you can imagine. If you’re going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter: it’s the only good fight there is.”
—Charles Bukowski, “Factotum” (via mishsquish)
Listen
chemicalstress:themusiclibrary:
I Feel It All - Feist
Oh I’ll be the one who’ll break my heart
I’ll be the one to hold the gunOh Leslie Feist, my heroine.
“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places — and there are so many — where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”
—Howard Zinn (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occured to you that you don’t go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one’s memory. And yet, I can’t remember it.”
—Tom Stoppard (via suzywire)
“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.”
—Mark Twain (via obdormio)
“I disregard the proportions, the measures, the tempo of the ordinary world. I refuse to live in the ordinary world as ordinary women. To enter ordinary relationships. I want ecstasy. I am a neurotic — in the sense that I live in my world. I will not adjust myself to the world. I am adjusted to myself.”
—Anais Nin (via suzywire)
These are hard times for dreamers: Neil Gaiman, American Gods →
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I can believe things that are true and I can believe things that aren’t true and I can believe things nobody knows if they’re true or not. I can believe in Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny and Marilyn Monroe and the Beatles and Elvis and Mister Ed. Listen - I believe that peope are perfectible,…
"Human relationships are strange, I mean you’re with one person awhile, eating and sleeping and living with them, loving them, talking to them, going places together, and then it stops." — Charles Bukowski
Welcome to my brain this weekend. Fuck you.
“Sometimes I just get tired of thinking of all the things I don’t want to do.”
—Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
The People Who Raised Me
Gregory and the Hawk
The People Who Raised Me - Gregory and the Hawk
It’s been a strong year with a bright, bright sun.
From here the past looks cold, and the future seems a promising one.
