May 2013
4 posts
“Being with you and not being with you is the only way I have to measure time.”
– Jorge Luis Borges (via likeafieldmouse)
April 2013
15 posts
2 tags
“It’s a farce, the great actors, the great poets, the great
statesmen, the...”
– Charles Bukowski, this moment
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace
(via kateoplis)
1 tag
A young Marine was carried in, still unconscious and full of morphine, and his legs were gone. As he was being carried into the ward, he came out of it briefly and saw a Catholic chaplain standing over him.
“Father,” he said, “am I all right?”
The chaplain didn’t know what to say. “You’ll have to talk about that with the doctors, son.”
...
“Making love in the sun, in the morning sun
in a hotel room
above the alley...”
– Charles Bukowski, Layover (via henrycharlesbukowski)
2 tags
“On that young, nondescript face the smile seemed to come out of some old...”
– Michael Herr, Dispatches
5 tags
“There are always a few such people who demand the utmost of life and yet cannot...”
– Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf
March 2013
10 posts
“Profound boredom, drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a...”
– Martin Heidegger, What is Metaphysics? (via heteroglossia)
“True virtue is life under the direction of reason.”
– Baruch Spinoza (via philosophy-quotes)
“Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”
– Herman Hesse, Steppenwolf (via human-voices)
February 2013
15 posts
2 tags
“We are incessantly contemplating our own nature, yet we are still unacquainted...”
– Bernard De Fontenelle, Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds
2 tags
“Ideal and material.— The ideal you envisage is noble, but are you noble...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science
“There was something totally missing in the poor fellows and something in me...”
– C. Bukowski, Hollywood. (via mattforce7)
1 tag
B.B. King, Darlin’ You Know I Love You
“Sometimes I think that the search for suffering and the remembrance of suffering...”
– Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case
1 tag
Freddie King, Same Old Blues
1 tag
“Has anyone ever seen a man smile at a woman as a woman smiles at the man she...”
– Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case
January 2013
24 posts
2 tags
“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories and...”
– Thomas Pynchon, V.
