February 2012
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“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via loveseat)
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“…On the other hand, I maintain that the cosmic religious feeling is the...”
– Albert Einstein
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In 1936, Albert Einstein wrote the following letter to a sixth-grade student, Phyllis Wright, in response to her question as to whether scientists pray, and if so, what they pray for.
“January 24, 1936
Dear Phyllis,
I have tried to respond to your question as simply as I could. Here is my answer.
Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined...
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flowerkitten:
inwardheartbeats:
The softest...
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“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat...”
– Leonardo da Vinci (via larmoyante)
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“And the afternoon, the evening, sleeps so peacefully!
Smoothed by long...”
– “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” by T. S. Eliot (via consistentinconsistencies)
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“And would it have been worth it, after all,
Would it have been worth while,...”
– T.S. Eliot, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
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bradisourking:
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Tomorrow I want to give a friend who is lovely in every way a poem (which could not stop growing in my efforts to be as sincere as possible). But if you could, feedback/critique of any kind would be wonderful and deeply appreciated. Asterisks mark areas that I particularly feel need to be somehow altered. Thank you. ♥
There is something particular in Having a reader as a friend. They’re...
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Taking Chances - Glee
“From the moment I met her I thought - you too? And I could see by the look in...”
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Heft, Liz Moore
These words punched me straight in the gut.
Over the course of my life I have been lucky enough to meet several people (some have left, others have stuck around) with whom I have shared a connection that was recognized immediately. Soul mates, if you will. But not in the...
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“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or...”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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pinksubmergence:
if only I could fish in the sky and maybe pluck a star from afar and put it inside a jar so you could use it as a lamp when the nights are damp and it will shine inside your room, removing all gloom if only I could swim across the cold night sky and set in motion a whole constellation so you could now easily fall asleep counting stars, and not sheep and you’ll bathe in the...
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“Listening to Bach’s solo suites
For cello, you know
He’s found the poem
But...”
– Gregory Orr, from Concerning the Book that is the Body of the Beloved (via growing-orbits)
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“In Cold Blood” also mocks many of the advances (on paper) of anti-realism....”
– Conrad Knickerbocker in a The New York Times review of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood
January 2012
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“But Smith, though he was the true murderer, aroused another response, for Perry...”
– In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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“You need a passion - one that won’t be denied, that won’t let you sleep, that’s...”
– Edwidge Dantica
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“You are a man of extreme passion, a hungry man not quite sure where his appetite...”
– In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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“To minor authors is left the commonplace: these do not bother about any...”
– “Good Readers and Good Writers” by Vladimir Nabokov
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“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me,...”
– Augusten Burroughs, Running with Scissors | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book)
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“Belief isn’t always easy.
But this much I have learned —
if not enough else —...”
– Mary Oliver, from “In the Storm” (with thanks to Love Is A Place)
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“Faces appear, are washed away,
Dear today and tomorrow far off.
Why did I once...”
– Anna Akhmatova, from “Imitation of I. F. Annensky” (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
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“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love,...”
– John Green (via anditslove)
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“You see but you do not observe. The distinction is clear.”
– Arthur Conan Doyle, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
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“With every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via my-arcane-words)
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“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
– Shirley Maclaine (via julie911)
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“We are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle (via darkcanuck)
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Anonymous asked: oohhh sunshine o'donnell is my teacher
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asp talk, move along
eatfoodzap:
oysterbunnies:
(In response to this post, but I wanted to repost and share with the tag because.) I don’t mean to refute anyone’s opinion at all, but this is just me commenting with my own. Jealousy is definitely a part of human nature, and I think that this, in fact, is precisely what John Knowles is trying to convey. Not only does such take root in Gene, but it also is ...
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“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
– Kazuo Ishiguro (via knockturn)
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(In response to this post, but I wanted to repost and share with the tag because.) I don’t mean to refute anyone’s opinion at all, but this is just me commenting with my own. Jealousy is definitely a part of human nature, and I think that this, in fact, is precisely what John Knowles is trying to convey. Not only does such take root in Gene, but it also is present within the whole of...