February 2012
19 posts
“Every stone one lifts by day becomes one’s heart by night.”
– Oscar Wilde
“All the paganism, Tantra, meditation, sacred sex, and BDSM sex magic(k) books...”
– Chris Hall (Why Sex Is Not Spiritual - The Exhibitionist)
J.K. Rowling to Publish First Adult Novel →
tinyisles:
J.K. Rowling has inked a deal with Little, Brown Book Group and Little, Brown and Company to publish her first novel for adults. The publisher did not reveal the title or publication date, but the novel will be published in print and eBook formats.
Little, Brown Book Group publisher David Shelley will edit and publish for UK readers; will be responsible for publication in the United...
I waste my deepest emotion on women.
“Had my credentials been in order I would never have become a writer. Had I been...”
– Joan Didion, in her 1976 New York Times article, “Why I Write,” (full PDF), which begins: “Of course I stole the title from this talk, from George Orwell. One reason I stole it was that I like the sound of the words: Why I Write… I stole the title not only because the words sounded right but because...
“If you keep it too narrow, you kill all the life in the music.”
– Joe Strummer
“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book....”
– Patti Smith (via libraryland)
“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world...”
– Stephen King, 11/22/63 (via michaelbelong)
Libraryland: "so you want to be a writer?" by... →
libraryland:
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don’t do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don’t do it. if you have to sit for hours staring at your computer screen or hunched over your typewriter searching for words, don’t do…
“You know how people long to be eternal. But they die with every day that passes....”
– The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand (via anniethinggoes)
“You’ll always be someone to me. In anyone’s company.”
January 2012
3 posts
685,685 tumbls from high school.girls.
December 2011
13 posts
I don’t have a need to compare my current lifestyle with anyone else. Yes I did stay up all night and sleep for a few short hours. Yes I did wake up and prepare for and execute a mission in Afghanistan. Yes I am still up at 2AM because I’m hopped up on energy drinks. But you know what, I also understand exhaustion. I know that you back home can be exhausted after your day at work, or...
“No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books,...”
– Horace Mann (via libraryland)
“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via beautyisanillusion)
Dance Music, you're time is here
But this time we have the technology, those 8-bit sounds were meant to sound lo-fi. Corporate record companies will still whore out the genre to any pretty face that can hold a note, but the artist are empowered more and more everyday. Their money cannot hijack this movement. Hell Interscope, RCA, and Sony can come along for the ride too, it’s not all garbage. But if you’re a hipster...
“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.”
– The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint Exupéry (via daedalsouls)
“A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down,...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via thisjunebug)
November 2011
20 posts
“Essentially, the idea of a “slut” is a myth told to women to keep them in their...”
– The Slut Myth (via seancing)
