January 2010
31 posts
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac (The Dharma Bums)
“Verba volant, scripta manent”
– - - Cicero
This is the title to one of the parts of my dissertation. I AM FEELING PRETENTIOUS.
'Anonymous was a woman' rant rant rant
I don’t know if anyone else saw this in the tumblr radar thingy - a quote from Virginia Woolf:
“For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.”
I always kind of liked the idea of being a writer some day (despite an obvious lack of talent and will power) but when I did think about it long enough I always imagined that I’d use a pen-name and that it’d probably be a male...
At night, Ralph Waldo Emerson read to himself the Dialogues of Plato, covered with blankets up to the chin. Ever after, he associated Plato with the smell of wool.
“Isn’t that the thing with fantasies? Fantasies are absolutely safe, as long as...”
– Jane Green (Submitted by: flairey) (via quote-book)
This makes me so sad.
So I'm only gonna say this once, but it's been
seriouslythough:
on my mind a bit since everyone’s been talking about it. And I get it, it’s almost Christmas time and all of those “best of 09” and “best of the decade” lists are coming out and you’re most likely looking at yourself and saying “Hey, this is not ideal. There are some things I wish were different,” and I get that — truly — but you really can’t blame it on 09.
Saying “I can’t...
“Success is somebody else’s failure. Success is the American Dream we can...”
– A Left Handed Commencment Address by Ursula K. LeGuin
