January 2012
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“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. O, touch me soon,...”
– James Joyce, Ulysses (via ye-sung)
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“I was never more hated than when I tried to be honest. Or when, even as just now...”
– Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
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“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t...”
– Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro (via lostinthesounds)
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“I closed my eyes and listened to the novel emotions gurgling through me. Feeling...”
– Jeff Lindsay, Dexter In The Dark (via mind-crumbs)
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“Then he just knelt in the ashes. He raised his face to the paling day. Are you...”
– The Road, by Cormac McCarthy (via overturetoalabasterskin)
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“I would like to hook up with one of the great Japanese filmmakers, like the...”
– Nicolas Cage (via buzzfeed)
“I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I...”
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (via honeyforthehomeless)
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It was almost abstract.
…where there was nature and earth, life and water, I saw a desert landscape that was unending, resembling some sort of crater, so devoid of reason and light and spirit that the mind could not grasp it on any sort of conscious level and if you came in close the mind would reel backward, unable to take it in.
It was a vision so clear and real and vital to me that in its purity it was almost...
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“I hated long views of life when the infinite overwhelms the finite subjects. not...”
– The Fuck-Up, Arthur Nersesian
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...But a little fantastic and fleeting and out of...
Charlie Kaufman: There was this time in high school. I was watching you out the library window. You were talking to Sarah Marsh.
Donald Kaufman: Oh, God. I was so in love with her.
Charlie Kaufman: I know. And you were flirting with her. And she was being really sweet to you.
Donald Kaufman: I remember that.
Charlie Kaufman: Then, when you walked away, she started making fun of you with Kim Canetti. And it was like they were laughing at *me*. You didn't know at all. You seemed so happy.
Donald Kaufman: I knew. I heard them.
Charlie Kaufman: How come you looked so happy?
Donald Kaufman: I loved Sarah, Charles. It was mine, that love. I owned it. Even Sarah didn't have the right to take it away. I can love whoever I want.
Charlie Kaufman: But she thought you were pathetic.
Donald Kaufman: That was her business, not mine. You are what you love, not what loves you. That's what I decided a long time ago.
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The Secret News
Good Evening ladies and gentlemen, it’s time for the secret news. Sshh. Here’s the secret news: All people are afraid. No one knows what they’re doing. Everything is getting worse. Some people deserve to die. Your money is worthless. No one is properly dressed. At least one of your children will disappoint you. The system is rigged. Your house will never be completely clean. All teachers are...