excisions!
a scrapbook.
Jan 4, 2009
3:37am
Jan 4, 2009
3:37am
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I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.
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- e. e. cummings. Perpetually true, unfortunately. (via brainsurgery)
Jan 4, 2009
3:36am
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The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and yet still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
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- F. Scott Fitzgerald. (via brainsurgery)
Jan 4, 2009
3:35am
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Oh! Do not attack me with your watch! A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch.
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- Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (via brainsurgery)
Jan 4, 2009
3:34am
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Jan 4, 2009
3:33am
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There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.
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- Christopher Morely. (via brainsurgery)
Jan 4, 2009
3:32am
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These young men have, to the utmost extent, that particular form of intelligence which we call ‘chic;’—daring, and wildly fantastical as they seem, they are still unswervingly true to their own nature, and to an immanent ideal.
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- Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa, referring to the Maasai warriors who sometimes lived near her farm. (via brainsurgery)
Jan 4, 2009
3:31am
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I can’t take a well-tanned person seriously.
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- Cleveland Amory. Something to make me feel better about my pastiness? (via brainsurgery)
Jan 4, 2009
3:31am
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I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.
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- Jane Austen. (via brainsurgery)
Jan 4, 2009
3:30am
Sexy. The only guarantee in life is a life worth dying for.
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