June 2009
78 posts
“sometimes i think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.” - nora ephron
“for me, a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what i shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss, that is a sense of being somehow, somewhere, connected with other states of being where art (curiosity, tenderness, kindness, ecstasy) is the norm.”
-vladimir nabokov
“punctuality is the virtue of the bored.” -evelyn waugh
“if virginia woolf had had two days a week at the ham counter at harrods, she mightn’t have offed herself.” simon doonan
“our only chance for survival lies in creating our own little islands of sanity and order, in making havens of our homes.” - sue kaufman
“we ain’t got no money, honey, but we got rain.”
charles bukowski
like all obsessions, the Making obsession has disadvantages; for instance, my only interest in making money would be to make it. fortunately, however, i should prefer to make almost anything else, including locomotives and roses. it is with roses and locomotives (not to mention acrobats Spring electricity Coney Island the 4th of July, the eyes of mice and Niagara Falls) that my “poems”...
“other planets can’t be as beautiful as this one.” rob ryan
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i live on earth at present, and i don’t know what i am. i know that i am not a category. i am not a thing — a noun. i seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process — an integral function of the universe.” r. buckminster fuller
“the sense of meaning stems from an awareness that one has through one’s work been able to either increase the pleasure or decrease the suffering of one’s fellow humans.”
alain de botton
