October 2011
2 posts
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September 2011
2 posts
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goldenrodrunning:
Interviewer: What about dignity?
Dave Eggers: You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it. It’s never dignified, always brutal. What’s dignified about dying? It’s never dignified. And in obscurity? Offensive. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it’s fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And...
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“I have no idea how people function without near-constant internal chaos. I’d...”
– A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers (via meetmeinmalkovich)
June 2011
2 posts
“Every one of Joel’s important songs—including the happy ones—are ultimately...”
– Chuck Klosterman, Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto
May 2011
8 posts
“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via girlwithoutwings)
March 2011
7 posts
“Some people pass through your life and you never think about them again. Some...”
– The Wonder Years | Submitted by erikajonas
“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history”
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Lemony Snicket
“Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.”
– Mark Twain (via kari-shma)
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with...”
– Lemony Snicket (Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid)
February 2011
5 posts
January 2011
18 posts
“The thing about being irresponsible is it’s only cute till you are about...”
– Donald Miller
“I looked down on the street from my window. The sun shone and the shopkeepers...”
– Lydia Davis, ‘A Strange Impulse’ in The Collected Stories of Lydia Davis, 2009, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 700 (via tracesoftraces)
November 2009
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April 2009
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