May 2013
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“People without hope not only don’t write novels, but what is more to the point,...”
– Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (with thanks to settledthingsstrange and habitofbeing)
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April 2013
8 posts
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March 2013
11 posts
Anonymous asked: I don't know how I stumbled upon your blog, but I did somehow (such is the way of the internet I guess), and before I knew it I'd been following for almost a year. You remind me that there's more beauty in life than what I can see from down here. So thanks
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as I'll be in Boston for the summer, one of my two...
In my dream, drilling into the marrow of my entire bone, my real dream, I’m walking up and down Beacon Hill searching for a street sign - namely MERCY STREET. Not there. I try the Back Bay. Not there. Not there. And yet I know the number. 45 Mercy Street. I know the stained-glass window of the foyer, the three flights of the house with its parquet floors. I know the...
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“Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how...”
– Michael Ondaatje, from Divisadero (via growing-orbits)
February 2013
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“I have a degree from UCLA. I’m an amateur historian who has written books about...”
– Kareem Abdul-Jabbar responds to the response to his response to ‘Girls’ | Huff Post Ent (via popculturebrain)
“Some questioned why a man my age would watch a show about girls in their twenties, as if they’d just discovered me hanging around a school playground with a shopping bag full of candy in...
January 2013
15 posts
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“But, when nothing subsists of an old past, after the death of people, after the...”
– Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way (translated by Lydia Davis)
Anonymous asked: models and bottles?
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The Modern Age - The Strokes
I eschew...
