April 2012
3 posts
March 2012
1 post
February 2012
21 posts
“If you asked me now who I am, the only answer I could give with any certainty...”
– Evelyn Waugh (via misswallflower)
Alive: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop →
petrifiedcats:
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing...
“I usually solve problems by letting them devour me.”
– Franz Kafka (via kafkaesque-world)
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Some of the 119 Amazing Facts for National Trivia... →
nevver:
5. In the 1980s, Pablo Escobar’s Medellin Cartel was spending $2,500 a month on rubber bands just to hold all their cash. 22. Only female mosquitoes will bite you. 35. That thing you use to dot your lowercase “i” is called a tittle. 42. The Arkansas School for the Deaf’s nickname is the…
January 2012
11 posts
“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out...”
– Flannery O’Connor (via pavorst)
December 2011
30 posts
“What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.”
– Christopher Hitchens (13 April 1949 – 15 December 2011)
The ‘biggest list of oxymorons’ on line
Oxymoronlist
via Coudal
“The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it...”
– George Carlin (via slekes)
“Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby,...”
– Willa Cather, My Ántonia (via bookoasis)
The “New Kinsey” sexuality scale
The New Yorker
Image: via Mark Simpson
