"What’s going to happen? I’m going to love you as long as you’ll let me, & I’ll teach you a little about literature & about real music, & then you’ll break my heart. That’s the classic denouement."
Amy Bloom from the novel, “Love Invents Us” (via honeybrown)
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: ANTHONY DOERR & CHALES D'AMBROSIO (THE OUTLET)
1. Charles D’Ambrosio in front of The Little Church. 2. Two amazing women from Tin House standing in disco light: Holly MacArthur, Deputy Publisher, and Meg Storey, Editor. 3. Michael Heald of Perfect Day Publishing, standing next to the wall with…
Beloveds, all our theories and generations came together today in order to find the optimum way of lacing shoes. The bow tie pattern is the most efficient.
I want to tie everything up when I speak of yous.
I want to tie it all up and tie up the world in an attempt to under stand the swirls of patterns.
But there is no efficient way.
juliana spahr
“For a long time literary critics and philosophers have argued, along with the novelist George Eliot, that one of fiction’s main jobs is to ‘enlarge men’s sympathies.’ Recent lab work suggests they are right.” Totally engrossing Jonathan Gottschall article, “Why fiction is good for you,” in Sunday’s Boston Globe. If you like it, there’s a whole book where that came from!
breakfast of champions
explorer
too legit to be lit
- Man’s a strange animal, and makes strange use
- Of his own nature, and the various arts,
- And likes particularly to produce
- Some new experiment to show his parts;
- This is the age of oddities let loose.
-Lord Byron
a quarter century had passed
“We shall meet again in Petersburg,
as though we had buried the sun there.” - O Mandelshtam
“To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.” ― Virginia Woolf, Orlando
And people don’t ever let you down, forever find a way to kill whatever life they’ve found. A heart beat and I want it too. Manhattan is where she grew.
(Source: davaros, via rooftopsandwallflowers)
