February 2010
246 posts
January 2010
97 posts
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
– Horace Walpole (via kissmeimlazy) (via nedhepburn)
“Normal people having nothing to forget.”
– E. M. Cioran (via nedhepburn)
“I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about...”
– Catcher In The Rye (via nedhepburn)
“I have a feeling that you’re riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall....”
– Mr. Antolini, The Catcher In The Rye. (via nedhepburn)
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever...”
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini (via nedhepburn)
Bunch of phonies mourn J.D. Salinger →
nedhepburn:
sabine:
CORNISH, NH—In this big dramatic production that didn’t do anyone any good (and was pretty embarrassing, really, if you think about it), thousands upon thousands of phonies across the country mourned the death of author J.D. Salinger, who was 91 years old for crying out loud. “He had a real impact on the literary world and on millions of readers,” said hot-shot English...
“I beg you…to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke ~ Letters to a Young Poet (via sonsryan) (via quote-book) (via saraherrera)
“It’s okay. It’s okay to want someone you can’t have. It’s okay to want something...”
– (via and-i-quote) (via mynameisloud) (via saraherrera)
“One thing I’ve learned living in State College is that when you find a used...”
– This American Life’s entire episode about Penn State — “#1 Party School” — is amazing. (via rickyv)
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
– Virginia Woolf (via bitchville) (via okay-me-too)
“It’s just that I don’t want to be somebody’s crush. If somebody likes me, I want...”
– Perks of Being a Wallflower (via poignant) (via quote-book) (via 500daysofapril) (via babrahamlincoln)
“Facts can be so misleading, where rumors, true or false, are often revealing.”
– Inglorious Basterds (via filmquotes)
Trippy →
“7. With intimacy came a wealth of information on the novelistic as opposed to...”
– alain de botton, on love. (via meaghano)