February 2012
52 posts
“It isn’t given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via tarrinj)
“And people are often unable to do anything, imprisoned as they are in I don’t...”
– Vincent Van Gogh in a letter to his brother Theo (July 1880)
“Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been...”
– Joan Didion, in her 1976 New York Times article, “Why I Write,” (full PDF), which begins: “Of course I stole the title from this talk, from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write… I stole the title not only because the words sounded right but because...
"7 Worst International Aid Ideas" →
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joychoi:
“[T]he TOMS campaign… misses the fundamental point that not having a pair of shoes (or a shirt, christmas toy, etc.) is not a problem about not having shoes. It’s a problem of poverty. Shoelessness, such as it is, is a symptom of a much bigger and more complex problem. And while donating a pair of shoes helps shoelessness, it does not help poverty.
Things like jobs...
“You are always ticking inside of me and I dream of you more often than I don’t....”
– Sierra DeMulder, Unrequited Love Poem (via human-thedeathdance)
“If you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.”
– Zora Neale Hurston (via psych-quotes)
always a reblog.
(via sylvysparrow)
“For me the postmodern attitude is that of a man who loves a woman who is...”
– Umberto Eco 1983 (via clarityandchaos)
“Late night and rain wakes me, a downpour,
wind thrashing in the leaves, huge...”
– Late Night by Margaret Atwood (via leukocytes)
Reporter: George, what do you miss most about John Lennon?
George Harrison: John Lennon.
Watchthedailywhat:
Grammys: A look back at Whitney Houston’s six Grammy wins.
[yardie.]
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“If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very...”
– e.e. Cummings (via libraryland)
yes.
“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From...”
– Sylvia Plath
#sometimes i am worried by how much i relate to a woman who put her head in an oven
(via barafundlebay)
“Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare...”
– Paul Gaugin French Impressionist Painter (via must-be-the-monet)
