January 2009
27 posts
“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living...”
– e. e. cummings. Perpetually true, unfortunately. (via brainsurgery)
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald. (via brainsurgery)
“Oh! Do not attack me with your watch! A watch is always too fast or too slow. I...”
– Jane Austen, Mansfield Park (via brainsurgery)
“There is no mistaking a real book when one meets it. It is like falling in love.”
– Christopher Morely. (via brainsurgery)
“These young men have, to the utmost extent, that particular form of intelligence...”
– Isak Dinesen, Out of Africa, referring to the Maasai warriors who sometimes lived near her farm. (via brainsurgery)
“I can’t take a well-tanned person seriously.”
– Cleveland Amory. Something to make me feel better about my pastiness? (via brainsurgery)
“I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.”
– Jane Austen. (via brainsurgery)
“I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out...”
– Jack London. Heard at a funeral today. Rest well, Nancy. (via brainsurgery)
“Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in...”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery. (via brainsurgery)
“A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A...”
– E. M. Forster. (via brainsurgery)
“He stooped and kissed her, and she sat as if folded in wings.”
– Edith Wharton, The Reef. (via brainsurgery)
“The cure for anything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the sea.”
– Isak Dinesen. (via brainsurgery)
“They sicken of the calm who knew the storm.”
– Dorothy Parker. (via brainsurgery)
“How can you keep up with her, this woman who is always reading another book...”
– Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler (via slaughtered) (via 52books) (via brainsurgery)
“He who fights with monsters must take care lest he thereby become a monster. And...”
– Freidrich Nietzsche. (via brainsurgery)
“Difficult times have helped me understand better than before, how infinitely...”
– Isak Dinesen. (via brainsurgery)
“I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in...”
– Thoreau. (via brainsurgery)
“The morning dew lingered below in the thick undergrowth of the grass, and Sergei...”
– Anna Karenina, Tolstoy.