December 2011
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“The cost of oblivious daydreaming was always this moment of return, the...”
– Ian McEwan, Atonement (via misswallflower)
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What's the definition of a great book? • The... →
“Nevertheless, what you find in the greatest works of literature often involves some or all of the following: the high quality of the language, complexity of theme and detail, universality, depth and quality of feeling, memorableness, rereadability … When you read works of this quality you often feel, and continue to feel, that your internal planes have shifted, and that things will never,...
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“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via mythologyofblue)
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“Deep within me there is a radical, intimate, bitter and incessant boredom which...”
– Julian Barnes, Flaubert’s Parrot (via weshood)
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“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”
– John Green (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Destiny is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else...”
– Bob Dylan, The Bob Dylan Scrapbook, 1956-1966
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20 December 2011
If only my life-affirming loves were more palpable and less flighty, more of tangible matter and atomic mass; then perhaps I wouldn’t feel that soul sick death every time real life stops me from having them in my life.
Bob Dylan was right; if you put it out there, they will kill it.
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TWO PARTS OF SPACE AND TIME THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE...
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“Human thought, flying on the trapezes of the star-filled universe, with...”
– Glory, Vladimir Nabokov
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Norman B20 Folk →
I tested this in the store 2 days ago.. and dreamt about it that night… sigh
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As Facebook Aims at Millions of Users, Some Are... →
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“Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot, page 47
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Murakami and Individualism : The New Yorker →
In my new, simple, regular life, I got up before 5 A.M. and went to bed before 10 P.M. Different people are at their best at different times of day, but I’m definitely a morning person. That’s when I can focus. Afterward, I work out or do errands that don’t take much concentration. At the end of the day, I relax, read, or listen to music. Thanks to this pattern, I’ve been able to work...
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“Our society has equated sleepiness with defects of character, like laziness and...”
– Scientists ID ‘Morning Person’ Gene - ABC News
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“Things are different from back in Chekhov’s time. No more horse-drawn carriages,...”
– Tamaru, 1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, pg 886
I want to know what music Tamaru listens to.
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Laura Marling Still Sad About Leaving Noah and the... →
That’s not to say that Marling longs for those days, or that she’s somehow unhappy with where she’s gone down her own path. “I’m very happy with who I am and what I do. I feel a little bit too tired all the time to do [what we used to do],” she says. “Those things were really fun — touring in a car and sleeping on people’s floors — but...