May 2013
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“All of this came to me in the space of a lingering moment. I’ve said it before...”
– Bill Bryson, Notes from a Small Island (via waitingfortheroar)
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“We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
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“How nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive.”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five
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April 2013
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“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
– Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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March 2013
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An apology...
I’ve been less than present on this blog over the past couple months - I’ve been traveling around Europe since getting to Vienna in February and am simply not at a computer often enough to post all the time. My apologies, beautiful people.
As I mentioned before, I do have a travel blog - it’s waitingfortheroar.tumblr.com, and I’m much more present there. If we normally...
Anonymous asked: Your url is beautiful. Thanks for being the only other person ever to love pushing daisies. Flawless
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“Solitude favors the original, the daringly and otherworldly beautiful, the poem....”
– Death in Venice, Thomas Mann
Anonymous asked: Keep your head up high, beautiful♥
“‘My life is nothing but room for you,’ I said. ‘It could never be filled by...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night (via iftheknifeshouldslitme)
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“We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.”
– Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
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“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
– Albert Camus, The Fall
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February 2013
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“I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely...”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger
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Anonymous asked: I love seeing occasional rebloging of Bukowski from your blog. It makes me feel more understood
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“When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune.”
– Albert Camus, The First Man
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“Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.”
– Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1935-1942
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“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any...”
– Albert Camus, The Fall
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January 2013
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Anonymous asked: how is it ok to dismiss all the shitty things he's done by saying he's a human being? do you feel the same way about pedophiles and mass murderers?
Anonymous asked: that's all very touching and romantic but buk was an abusive misogynist and i think obv it's ok to enjoy his art but you gotta acknowledge he's done so much awful problematic shit
Anonymous asked: How do you feel about Bukowski as a person? He was of course a genius as far as poetry goes, but in researching his personal life it broke my heart, not from pity, but from learning that his spark comes from such a disturbing place.
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“They’re in love. Fuck the war.”
– Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
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“Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of...”
– Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
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