October 2010
217 posts
“Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms...”
– Frances Farmer on past experience as a mental patient. She was involuntarily committed to a mental hospital. (via jjarichardson)
Stephen Fry: Can we settle an important question?
JK Rowling: Yes.
Stephen Fry: How do you pronounce your last name?
JK Rowling: It is Row-ling. As in rolling pin.
Stephen Fry: So if any of you hear someone pronounce her name “Rohw-ling”, you have my permission to hit them over the head with — not with Order of the Phoenix, that would be cruel. Something smaller, like a fridge.
“School didn’t prepare us for this. Public education is a relic of the Industrial...”
– Are You in Your Creative Element? | Lateral Action (via bridgettelizabeth)
“Je ne suis pas sage, je suis très cruelle, mais aucun homme n’enrage parce que...”
– Anna Karina dans le film, Une femme est une femme. (via thewindwillcarryus)
“Reality gives me asthma.”
– Cioran
from Syllogismes De L’amertume,1952
[available in English as All Gall Is Divided here]
(via billyjane)
“Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when...”
– Henry Miller
(via thechocolatebrigade)
“This is the story of one of those pretty creatures who lived on the quicksands...”
– Excerpt from George Cukor’s film, “Camille,” starring actress Greta Garbo (1905-1990) and Robert Taylor (1911-1969), 1936. (via historiful)
“Moses standing on the Shore, and extending his Hand over the Sea, thereby...”
– Benjamin Frankin’s proposal to the first committee of the Great Seal. (via simonf)
House of Mind: List: Interesting Psychiatric Terms →
Abulia or aboulia: In neurology, refers to a lack of will or initiative. Thus, the patient is unable to act or make decisions independently
Akataphasia (Kraepelin 1896): disorder of thought expression in speech and results due to dissolution of logical order of trains of thought.
Alogia:…
“The only people who can ever put ideas into context are people who don’t care;...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via thechocolatebrigade)
“There are people so unusual looking, you feel intelligent for finding them...”
– Alain de Botton (via twistednuns)
“We recreate the circumstances we can’t handle over and over until - finally - we...”
– Chellie Campbell (via rememo)
“Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors,...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via lettingithappen)
R.A.A.F.S.R.
anotherword:
preference: undecided. If I painted I’d prefer the reds of fires and smoldering coals. and If I was a lover, I’d study yarns spun of condensed Alpha Centauri. And planets. I’m balancing mermaids, against the sea. The molten sun split-open to the East horizon. And on snow skin. I’d fall. Never consider. …
Another Word for Words: Be Careful. I read the... →
anotherword:
Be Careful.
I read the words and barely thought them over as I pried apart the hole in the fence. The fury of silence amplified the noise of each dedicated motion. I never paid much heed to words, especially those written for the general audience. When the opening seemed large enough and when I…
R.A.A.F.S.R.
anotherword:
preference: undecided. If I painted I’d prefer the reds of fires and smoldering coals. and If I was a lover, I’d study yarns spun of condensed Alpha Centauri. And planets. I’m balancing mermaids, against the sea. The molten sun split-open to the East horizon. And on snow skin. I’d fall. Never consider. …
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own....”
– Bob Moawad (via bodymindandsoul)
“When someone is able to reach not just your heart but your soul without creating...”
– A Good Bye Letter Attempt: Is it possible to love & miss someone without feeling any pain at all?(via whatcolorisyoursky)
Another Word for Words: i'm sorry my friend, the... →
anotherword:
inside my October. colors inarticulate, the moving parts, the rolled clouds, and a sky full of black stars. the smell of fox hide, boots muddied of nature, the drift of my eyes, and sap drying on the tight bark.
my brain is arranged with you as my last thought: then strained through …
Another Word for Words: better yet →
anotherword:
what are you waiting for. holding doors, windowless opportunities. start a commotion make yourself joy in making others joyful. what are you waiting for. hold your liquor. better yet, let it spoil in your stomach. wake up, better let you get the best of it, early birds, late worms, how weak a…
“and i have
faith in this
tiny flower
that is resting
sometimes
on your ear”
– The Wilted Flower. (via anotherword)
“I had the lonely child’s habit of making up stories and holding conversations...”
– George Orwell, Why I Write (via suzywire)
“Even by European and Inquisition-era standards, Columbus and his missions were...”
– Cleveland AIM, ‘Why Cleveland AIM Opposes Columbus Day’ (via meloukhia)
“…I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into...”
– Haruki Murakami (Sputnik Sweetheart)
“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via cavesoflilith)
“The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the...”
– Thomas Merton (via bloodisthenewblackk)
“It seems to me that almost all our sadness are moments of tension, which we feel...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via thechocolatebrigade)
“America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing...”
– e. e. cummings (via jesuisperdu)
Psychology Today: What do you think is the most troubling general misconception about introverts?
Dr. Laurie Helgoe: Wow — it’s hard to choose. I am very troubled by the tendency to define introverts by what they lack. Introversion is a preference, not a fallback plan. Introverts like being introverts. We are drawn to ideas, we are passionate observers, and for us, solitude is rich and generative. Think of all that goes on in the playground of solitude: daydreaming, reading, composing, meditating — and just being, writing, calculating, fantasizing, thinking, praying, theorizing, imagining, drawing/painting/sculpting, inventing, researching, reflecting. You get the idea.
COULEURS: Amo Ergo Sum →
yama-bato:
Because I love The sun pours out its rays of living gold Pours out its gold and silver on the sea. Because I love The earth upon her astral spindle winds Her ecstasy-producing dance. Because I love Clouds travel on the winds through wide skies, Skies wide and beautiful, blue and…
“A mature mind is one who understands the impossibility of knowing the ultimate,...”
– Osho (via bluejaysings)
“Fiction is experimentation. When it ceases to be that, it ceases to be fiction.”
– John Cheever (via booklover)
“A novel is like a dream in which everyone is you. They’re all parts of you.”
– Janet Fitch. Paint It Black. (via beejolene)
highonflowers:
Fraught with heartache and desperation Guess I loved you in vain
“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
– Josh Billings (via actyourshoesize)
comolamiel:
What motivates you? What inspires you? What can you do to spend more time doing what inspires you?
“Don’t grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.”
– Rumi (via dreamwriters)
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you...”
– Stephen King (via itsthatbitchbrittany)
“Got you. You’re mine now. For the rest of the day, week, month, year, life. Have...”
– The Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis (via thechocolatebrigade)
“We are so limited, you have to use the same word for loving Rosaleen as you do...”
– The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I think, even, if I ever die, and they stick me in a cemetery, and I have a...”
– Holden Caulfield (The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger)
“An idea, a new idea, is a new network of neurons firing in sync with each other...”
–
Steve Johnson
(via monstersflash)
completeeuphoria:
insanity is knowing what you’re doing is completely idiotic, but still somehow, you just can’t stop it
—Elizabeth Wurtzel
“Sin is the only note of vivid color that persists in the modern world.”
– Oscar Wilde (via megustascuandocallas)
“All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self...”
– Nick Hornby (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“You write to communicate to the hearts and minds of others what’s burning inside...”
– Arthur Plotnik, editor and author (b. 1937)