“I don’t know whether it’s funny or sad that the meanest Mean Girls I know are actually middle-aged men”
(Things I’ve said today.)
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Posted 10 months ago
If you listen, you can hear it.
The city, it sings.
If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of a street, on the roof of a house.
It’s clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you.
It’s a wordless song, for the most, but it’s a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings.
And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note.
The city, it sings.
If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of a street, on the roof of a house.
It’s clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you.
It’s a wordless song, for the most, but it’s a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings.
And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note.
Jon McGregor, from If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Posted 10 months ago
Posted 1 year ago
“In the Spring a young man’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.”
—Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Locksley Hall”
Posted 1 year ago
There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Posted 1 year ago
I haven’t the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
David Sedaris, Naked
Posted 1 year ago
‘I read,’ I say. ‘I study and read. I bet I’ve read everything you’ve read. Don’t think I haven’t. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM-drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.” My instincts concerning syntax and mechanics are better than your own, I can tell, with due respect.
‘But it transcends the mechanics. I’m not a machine. I feel and believe. I have opinions. Some of them are interesting. I could, if you’d let me, talk and talk. Let’s talk about anything. I believe the influence of Kierkegaard on Camus is underestimated. I believe Dennis Gabor may very well have been the Antichrist. I believe Hobbes is just Rousseau in a dark mirror. I believe, with Hegel, that transcendence is absorption. I could interface you guys right under the table.’
—David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest
Posted 1 year ago
Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?
with your one wild and precious life?
Mary Oliver (via libraryland)
Posted 1 year ago
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
—Virginia Woolf
Posted 1 year ago
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning do to do afterward.”
—Kurt Vonnegut
Posted 1 year ago
Remember, remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.
Happy Birthday, Sylvia Plath
Posted 1 year ago
“a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.” (kurt vonnegut)
Posted 1 year ago
“Don’t use the phone, people are never ready to answer it. Use poetry.” (Jack Kerouac)
Posted 1 year ago
“The truth will set you free. But not until it is finished with you.” (David Foster Wallace)
Posted 1 year ago
“The impossible often has a kind of integrity the merely improbable lacks”
—Douglas Adams
A 24-year old recent college grad, ENFP (so they tell me), nostalgia-prone yet eternally optimistic. An aspiring writer who spends her weekdays answering phones and blogging for other people (everyone has to have a day job, right?)I like nighttime music, things that remind me of London, dark comedies & books books books.
Also, I paint shoes, have an excellent telephone voice & don't dig the oxford comma.
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