February 2012
23 posts
“Some people bring out the worst in you, others bring out the best, and then...”
– Karen Marie Moning
“There are very few thoughts or concepts that can’t be put into plain English,...”
– E. B. White, Why Brevity Is Not the Gold Standard for Style
“The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow...”
– William Butler Yeats
January 2012
25 posts
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter... →
New York November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.
First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second — There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing...
The morning, like the very late night, can be a...
“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”
–
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
(via lerenarddenuit)
While mindlessly scrolling through the infinite pages of Tumblr something entirely inconsequential, but also very interesting, caught my eye. Someone was making one of those super corny “send me a number corresponding to a question and I’ll answer it” things (which are entirely asinine but that’s a different subject completely) and the first item on their list was...
“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you...”
– Anthony Bourdain (via thatkindofwoman)
1.1.12
It’s really easy on a day like today, the first day of yet another year to which the Lord has brought me safely, to look back on the other years that have already come and gone. It seems right, as time continues to creep forward, to look back at the times we had and the people that we used to be. I get sad doing this because things were so different a year ago, or two or three, and as often...
December 2011
31 posts
