June 2012
66 posts
“To the several Times readers who objected to my offhanded description of the...”
– Catholics, Continued - NYTimes.com
“Doing it the inefficient way, you use the senses. You look at a row of spines,...”
– Butler Library at Columbia Is a Haven for Body and Mind - NYTimes.com
“They know that one cannot affirm the fullness of life in Christ by proscription...”
– Parting Shot < Killing the Buddha
why is this a difficult concept
“How many kinds of love
might there be in the world,
and how many formations...”
– Mary Oliver (via creativedreadhead)
Champagne Candy: getting back to wanting →
champagnecandy:
For a while I had lost touch with the “I want” in myself. I had convinced myself that daring to want things in this fucked-up world was just impossible, and worse, wrong. Bad. An expression of privilege.
I spent so much time trying to convince myself that this thing I wanted was bad and I…
“But ambition is like a poison and a gift tangled together and it makes you leave...”
– The Rejectionist: What I Did the Summer After I Graduated
“I’m writing this piece to implore you, reader, to please go easy on yourself....”
– Rookie » A Tried and True Map to Paradise
“Didion made new sense—perfect sense—to me. How she lost and found herself in the...”
– Rookie » Literally the Best Thing Ever: Joan Didion
“All I’ve ever wanted to do was create and witness art that might save my life....”
– Nina Simone’s Gun | Lambda Literary
“Ultimately, effortless is an impossible pursuit. There is a breaking point: You...”
– ‘Breaking Pointe’ and the price of perfection - latimes.com
“Not my daughter, you bitch!”
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)
“The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
– Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G. H., trans. Ronald W. Sousa (via proustitute)
“The burden of living one’s own life is experiencing sensations that no one else...”
– David Ignatow, The Art of Poetry No. 23 (via theparisreview)
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: You Are the Only... →
“But niceness has become, paradoxically, a chokehold on this discussion. How nice...”
– The Saturday Rumpus Essay: But I Don’t Want To Get Gone - The Rumpus.net
(women, writing, ratios, etc.)
“When you come across that thing that takes a seam-ripper to the sewed-up reality...”
– Rookie » Identity Kit
“At the bottom of the well, I looked at myself, and what I saw was a mean,...”
– Sadybusiness
John Green's tumblr: Julie Strauss-Gabel on... →
fishingboatproceeds:
My publisher, Julie Strauss-Gabel, has a tumblr but hasn’t quite figured out how to maximize the tumblr experience. However, she sent me this after reading my defense of critical reading and the kind of analysis that is done in literature classes. Read it:
I think at the heart of this…
boyqueen:
I feel like, especially lately, I’ve been drawing super heavily on the aesthetics of my past. Like some combination of a couple different points in my life.
First is that little kid of the early nineties who wore floral dresses with jean vests and hiking boots and was very vocal about being a tomboy even though other people didn’t get it because I wore dresses and caked glitter on my...
“The dirty little secret is no longer sex; the dirty little secret is hatred and...”
– Philip Roth, The Art of Fiction No. 84 (via theparisreview)
“How can you want to die when you haven’t been to all the countries yet? There...”
– Hey. Don’t kill yourself. « CaptainAwkward.com
“I often feel like I have to wrestle with reality, with people and things that...”
– Rookie » June 6, 2012
Watch "Video Exclusive: Dar Williams Sings "As... →
DAR AGAIN <33333
(same song, same shit)
“If I take a hard look, if I map out my constants, then they’re messy. I’m still...”
– SELF-MADE MAN #11: Blood And Ceremony - The Rumpus.net
“For example, participants with depressive symptoms tended to engage in very high...”
– How Depressed People Use the Internet - NYTimes.com
EMAIL <33333
“This is a place filled with the dailiness of my life. I am left with the simple...”
– Dar Williams via Ms.
“I wish I could hold my whole life so far in the palm of my hand and feel it as...”
– Rookie » June 13, 2012
“I believed that I wanted to be a poet, but deep down I just wanted to be a poem.”
– Jaime Gil de Bieda (via elenabelyea)
Date a girl who writes
honeyforsenses:
She will turn you into immortality.
She will erupt in endless fantasies and metaphors and allegories every time you make love to her. She will whisper the secrets of an undiscovered universe while her fingers grasp for your hair or your back or your shoulders—aching to touch because she must touch something.
She likes to touch.
Date a girl who writes because she will listen to...
“In art,” I wrote, “feminism is that idea which opposes segregation; which means...”
– Prize or Prejudice - NYTimes.com
“Perhaps all our loves are merely hints and symbols; vagabond-language scrawled...”
– Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via pineconeonthetent) 