Let Us Read and Let Us Dance

libraryland: eyesturnedskyward: Viva Superstar with Hair...

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:49:58 -0500

eyesturnedskyward:

Viva Superstar with Hair co-authors, James Rado and Gerome Ragni.

From the film, Lions Love. (via)

"We all come to the novelist as slaves stand before an emperor. He can free us with a word. Through..."

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 06:55:51 -0500

““We all come to the novelist as slaves stand before an emperor. He can free us with a word. Through him we can abandon our former lot and know what it is to be a general, a weaver, a singer, a country gentleman, to live in the village, to gamble, to hunt, to hate, to love, to go soldiering. Through him we are Napoleon, Savonarola, a peasant—stranger yet, an existence we might never have experienced, we are ourselves. He lends a voice to the mob, to solitude, to the old churchman, to the sculptor, to the child, to the horse, to the soul within us. Through him, we become the true Proteus who puts on all forms of life in succession. Exchanging them this, one for another, we feel that to our being, grown so agile and so strong, these forms of life are only a game, a mask that grieves or grins, but which is never quite real. Our good or bad fortune momentarily loses its tyrannical hold on us, we play with it and with that of others. This is why we feel such happiness when we reach the end of some beautiful novel with a tragic theme.””

- Marcel Proust (On Art and Literature) (via readbooks) (via libraryland)

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives."

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:37:33 -0500

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”

- Annie Dillard, The Writing Life (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)

suzywire: disappearingink:mishsquish

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:16:42 -0500

suzywire:

disappearingink:mishsquish

onebadapple: grandeuricillusions: lacontessa: mabelmoments: 1...

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:19:26 -0500

onebadapple:

grandeuricillusions:

lacontessa:

mabelmoments:

13 Tips for Single Women

“Bitch, can’t you see I’m dancing here? Seriously.”

Hmmm… what can we replace the word “dance” with in this scenario??

onebadapple: fuckyeahrocknroll: Morrissey

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 09:17:59 -0500

onebadapple:

fuckyeahrocknroll:

Morrissey

libraryland: talknerdytome: The Ghostbusters - Librarian (via...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:35:15 -0500

libraryland:

talknerdytome:

The Ghostbusters - Librarian (via File:Libraryghost.png - Ghostbusters Wiki)

pjmix: La Chinoise

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:35:11 -0500

pjmix:

La Chinoise

"I hate leisure, except reading. I`m really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:05:54 -0500

“I hate leisure, except reading. I`m really a person made to work, if sketching is considered work.”

- Karl_Lagerfeld (via lastnightinearlydied)

"At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:04:41 -0500

“At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That’s a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.”

- f. scott fitzgerald - my all-time favourite writer (via lastnightinearlydied)

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that..."

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:01:12 -0500

“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn’t happen much, though.”

- J.D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye (via lastnightinearlydied)

bebelestrange: happy halloween this is the scariest/funniest...

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 06:06:35 -0500

bebelestrange:

happy halloween

this is the scariest/funniest thing i’ve seen all halloween - i thought i was unshockable - normal reading/dancing will resume asap xx

Audrey’s Dance - Twin Peaks

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:52:40 -0400

Audrey’s Dance - Twin Peaks

youmightfindyourself: Since the early 1980s, David has been...

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:29:45 -0400

youmightfindyourself:

Since the early 1980s, David has been riding a bike as his principal means of transportation in New York City. Two decades ago, he discovered folding bikes and started taking them with him when travelling around the world. DB’s choice was initially made out of convenience rather than political motivation, but the more cities he saw from his bicycle, the more he became hooked on this mode of transport and the sense of liberation, exhilaration, and connection it provided. This point of view, from his bike seat, became his panoramic window on urban life, a magical way of opening one’s eyes to the inner workings and rhythms of a city’s geography and population.Bicycle Diaries chronicles David’s observations and insights — what he is seeing, whom he is meeting, what he is thinking about — as he pedals through and engages with some of the world’s major cities. In places like Buenos Aires, Istanbul, San Francisco, and London, the focus is more on the musicians and artists he encounters. Politics comes to the fore in cities like Berlin and Manila, while chapters on New York City, and on the landscaped suburban industrial parks and contemporary ruins of such spots as Detroit, Pittsburgh, and Columbus are more concerned with history in the urban landscape. Along the way, DB has thoughts to share about fashion, architecture, cultural isolation, globalization, and the radical new ways that some cities, like his home town, are becoming more bike-friendly — all conveyed with a highly personal mix of humor, curiosity, and humanity. - Bicycle Diaries

"Meanwhile, no matter how hard she tried, she could think of not one moment when love had ever..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:45:45 -0400

“Meanwhile, no matter how hard she tried, she could think of not one moment when love had ever brought her peace. It was always accompanied by agony, intense joy, and deep sadness.”

- Paulo Coelho
(via suzywire)

"I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not “true” because we’re hungry..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:45:42 -0400

““I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not “true” because we’re hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone who lived in the real world, always has the possibility of being about oneself. “”

- Orson Scott Card (via loveyourchaos) (via booklover) (via libraryland)

"Have you ever had someone you loved stick in your mind? It’s really terrible when that happens… you..."

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:45:40 -0400

“Have you ever had someone you loved stick in your mind? It’s really terrible when that happens… you try to forget, but your second mind keeps saying: ‘Oh, if only he were here.’”

- Paulo Coelho (via suzywire)

killingbambi: cigz: (via)read and smoke-m

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:44:53 -0400

killingbambi:

cigz:

(via)
read and smoke
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killingbambi: cigz: fuckyeahsmokeybitch:-m

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:44:48 -0400

killingbambi:

cigz:

fuckyeahsmokeybitch:
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(via owlswallowvowels)

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:44:41 -0400

(via owlswallowvowels)