March 2012
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“I was filled with sadness for a man who had been dead 142 years, but for the...”
– Our Reading Lives: Death, Here is Thy Sting (via bookriot)
February 2012
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dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a state of exhaustion with how shitty people can be to each other, typically causing a countervailing sense of affection for things that are sincere but not judgmental, are unabashedly joyful, or just are.
“I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my...”
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (July-Sept 1950)
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“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace; Infinite Jest (via paperlover)
rhubarbic:
Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) peering through the doors of the Rovers Return pub in Coronation Street, taken in June 1964.
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That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.
Friend: But don't you already have that book?
Me: But not with this cover...
Me: ...or this edition....
Me: ...or these annotations...or...
Me: What was your question again?
“The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief. So does a fairy story,...”
– Charlie Brooker on the economy (via guardian) 