May 2012
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Such a busy weekend, but it was a weekend away so it was quite lovely. I do adore hotel lounging, just enjoying a place that’s not your own and being in a place you’re not usually in. I don’t have cable at home, so it’s always fun to watch cable in a hotel. I watched a lot of Food Network shows, I’ll tell you that. On Sunday, my dad and brother went to the Indy 500,...
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“I remember that I stood on the library steps holding my books and looking for a...”
– Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle (via librarianista)
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pantheonbooks:
“But what is memory if not the language of feeling, a dictionary of faces and days and smells which repeat themselves like the verbs and adjectives in a speech, sneaking in behind the thing itself, into the pure present, making us sad or teaching us vicariously…”
― Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
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A Spotify Playlist of Every Song Mentioned in... →
Having just read this book, I find this playlist to be very awesome.
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“I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other...”
– Jeanette Winterson, Paris Review - The Art of Fiction No. 150 (via leopoldgursky)
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Ticket to the Fair →
tetw:
by David Foster Wallace
Wherein our reporter gorges himself on corn dogs, gapes at terrifying rides, savors the odor of pigs, trades unpleasantries with tattooed carnies, and admires the loveliness of cows.
This is such a fun read. One of my first encounters with DFW.
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“Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.”
– John Green (via inboxfivewithenjolras)
Preach.
(via amizsak)
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