May 2012
150 posts
“Consensus reality is reserved for the lazy.”
– (via anti-teachings)
Breadcrumb trail
middleofthenightdaydreams:
There I was
unsure of which
way to go
when I found the
breadcrumb trail
you had left
for me.
Then I realized
that was exactly
my problem
because that was
the most
you were willing
to give me.
Crumbs.
So I turned and
went back home.
“She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought...”
– ― Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest
“[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who...”
– ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
“I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via therawrevelation)
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via chapped-lips-tongue-kissed)
“Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after...”
– ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
“My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression.”
– ― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
“Cussing doesn’t come from a lack of vocabulary – I know all the other words....”
– Anis Mojgani (via heartmindawakening)
“Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the...”
–
Stephen R. Covey
(via loveisntbeauty)
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is language. Control the words,...”
– Philip K Dick
“Everyone had clearly spent far too long perfecting their appearance. I used to...”
– ― Charlie Brooker
“To touch a person…to sleep with a person…is to become a...”
– ― Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest
“Prostitution gives her an opportunity to meet people. It provides fresh air and...”
– ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
“Man must become comfortable in flowing from one role to another, one set of...”
“I want to be violated by insight.”
– ― Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt
“Why are they going to disappear him?’
I don’t know.’
It...”
– ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
“The fear of death is the beginning of slavery.”
– ― Robert Anton Wilson, The Golden Apple
“Missing a train is only painful if you run after it! Likewise, not matching the...”
– ― Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
“All images are Rorschach tests.”
– Françoise Mouly, art editor of the New Yorker, on art, specifically the magazine’s covers, at last night’s event at Greenlight Bookstore. (via largeheartedboy)
“He could not make them understand that…having a good time bored him and...”
– ― Joseph Heller, Catch-22
“Parties somehow represent the rationing of fun, and that very concept depresses...”
– ― Charlie Brooker
musicians: stop illegally downloading our music we're broke
kids: but we're broke too
“I’d woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via pyrexia)
“The Company, with divine modesty, avoids all publicity. Its agents, as is...”
– Jorge Luis Borges; “The Lottery in Babylon” (via victorioushandofgod)
“People would rather expand the definition of tadpole than become butterflies....”
– Rachel Marone (via anti-teachings)
“Beneath English trees I meditated on that lost maze: I imagined it inviolate and...”
– (via rw-a)
They want you to think that the only way to stop...
satans-advocate: sonder →
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. the unsettling realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill…
