February 2012
49 posts
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to...”
– Charles Bukowski (via thresca)
9 tags
“A ruler who hides behind paid executioners soon forgets what death is.”
– George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
“Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the...”
– Carl Sagan (via mushroomflesh)
“If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to man as it...”
– William Blake (via moreofamore)
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“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Christopher McCandless (via periodbloodpopsicle)
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“A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.”
– Franz Kafka (via bookaddict24-7)
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (via good-morning-america)
“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down,...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via infinitives)
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in...”
– John Green (via good-morning-america)
“Life is hard enough, without people having to worry themselves sick about money,...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater (via mrlogos)
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient...”
– Dr. Seuss (via ruineshumaines)
9 tags
“Joy has that peculiar effect that at times it oppresses us just as much as...”
– Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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“…I am not proud, but I am in love, and I believe love is more apt to make...”
– Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo
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“What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes,...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
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“There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via infinitives)
“There isn’t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five (via crackula)
“We’re terrible animals. I think that the Earth’s immune system is trying to get...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via putridsexobject)
“All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self...”
– Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree (via bookaddict24-7)
“He is in a constant state of stage fright, because he never knows what part of...”
– Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five (via cat-swagger)
8 tags
“I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers- where you just repeat...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
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“…I’m not going to be one of those people who sits around talking...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
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“…for we are engaged here in the most important pursuit in history: the...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
12 tags
“Because you simply cannot draw things out forever. At some point, you just pull...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via howaboutmoreface)
21 tags
“Suppose we say that wilderness invokes nostalgia, a justified not merely...”
– Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
22 tags
“My God! I’m thinking, what incredible shit we put up with most of our...”
– Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
14 tags
“Then there are the so-called extraordinary activities of the devil in the world....”
– Jay Anson, The Amityville Horror
“This is very important — to take leisure time. Pace is the essence. Without...”
– Charles Bukowski (via madmalice)
“Everyone should always have two books with him, one to read and one to write in.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson (via bookaddict24-7)
“A man without words is a man without thought.”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via honeyforthehomeless)
13 tags
“We’re living in a teetering tower of babble. A shaky reality of words. A...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
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“It’s nothing perfect or complete, but this is what I’ve made of my...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
12 tags
“I will venture in the power of the odd and unexpected to startle the senses and...”
– Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
13 tags
“Are men no better than sheep or cattle, that they must live always in view of...”
– Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness
“Artists use frauds to make human beings seem more wonderful than they really...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via e-flatminor)
“These days man knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via bookmania)
January 2012
119 posts
