January 2011
117 posts
“You are the only person who has understood a whisper of me, and I will tell you that I am the only person who has understood even a whisper of you.”
—Everything is Illuminated, Jonathan Safran Foer
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“It’ll all be fine, just be yourself./
What an appalling piece of advice.” —Miranda
What an appalling piece of advice.” —Miranda
- The Grandad Cardigan: Cardigans are the comfort food of clothes - they provide instant grantification, are stodgy and give you that same lethargic feeing after overindulging, which means they give the most security in cashmere (and a much needed nod to a little luxurious refinement).
My so called life
- Angela: Really? You think she did? You think she siliconed her lips? Really?
- Rayanne: Angela, he's gone. You can talk like a normal person. You've got to progress to the next stage of this. I mean think of Ricky and me, how much more can we take?
- Angela: I just don't want to look like I'm throwing myself at him.
- Rayanne: Excuse me, people throwing themselves at people is like the basis of civilisation.
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“The book of love is long and boring. No one can lift the damn thing. It’s full of charts and facts and figures and instructions for dancing. But I, I love it when you read to me and you… you can read me anything.”
—Book of Love, Magnetic Fields
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- Cold Comfort Farm: One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.
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“It just seems like you agree to have a certain personality or something, for no reason, just to make it easier for everyone. But when you think about it, how do you even know it’s really you?”
—My So Called Life
“Even to see her walk across the room is a liberal education.”
—C.S. Lewis
“I fundamentally oppose the use of obscure words for the creation of something like a period piece, you know, just arbitrarily picking an older word out of the lexicon just for the sake of saying something that sounds a little cool.”
—Joanna Newsom (via: fuckyeahjoannanewsome)
- Vows, Dixie Feldman and Jeffrey Laite, NYTimes.com: As she entered the train, she noticed a man standing and reading “History of Philosophy, Volume IX.” That impressed her.
- I infer that people who read philosophy are people who think about life and wonder about it and just don’t take everything at face value,” she said. “I like that in a person.
- After silently willing him to look her way (he did not), she finally gathered the courage to ask him about the book. Mr. Laite, now 48, and she began chatting about whether reading philosophy had actually changed their lives. (She said yes; he was unsure). When he noted that there was a Monty Python ditty, “The Philosophers’ Song,” she sang it aloud.
- The Feeling: There should be a word for the feeling you get when you are 3/4 done with the book you are reading, and although you are enjoying said book, you feel an intense desire to begin another book that you have decided you will read next.
- I bet the Germans have a word for it.
“Hush darling don’t you cry. Hush daring don’t you cry. Because they’re never going to reach you. Never going to reach you”
—Cut Copy
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“I reflected wearily that it was not easy to be a Woman in these stirring times. I said it then and I say it now: it just isn’t our century.”
—The Dud Avocado, Elaine Dundy (via leknuk)
- Little Dragon: Twice I turn my back on you
- I fell flat on my face but didn't lose
- Tell me where would I go
- Tell me what led you on
- I'd love to know.
- The Buccaneers: In this great lonely desert of life stretching out before her she had a friend - a friend who understood not only all she said, but everything she could not stay.
