February 2012
9 posts
“To succeed in life, you need 3 things: a wishbone, a backbone & a funny...”
– ~Reba McEntire
A beautiful 1928 letter from Jackson Pollock’s...
Dear Son Jack,
Well it has been some time since I received your fine letter. It makes me a bit proud and swelled up to get letters from five young fellows by the names of Charles, Mart, Frank, Sande, and Jack. The letters are so full of life, interest, ambition, and good fellowship. It fills my old heart with gladness and makes me feel ‘Bully.’ Well Jack I was glad to learn how you felt about...
“If you want to be happy, be.”
– Henry David Thorreau
January 2012
18 posts
“Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1)...”
– C. S. Lewis, in a letter to Sarah, his godchild, on 3 April 1949 via Stan Carey (via bobulate)
“I returned to college in the Fall, but my mind wasn’t at rest… I left and went...”
– 19-year-old Jack Kerouac in New York Diaries, a fantastic collection of famous and infamous journal entries about New York City from the past 400 years, featuring Andy Warhol, Mark Twain, J.F.K., and other icons. (via curiositycounts)
No Resolution
thenewinquiry:
A review of Lauren Berlant’s Cruel Optimism at the beginning of the end.
By Jenna Brager
Lauren Berlant wants you to break your New Year’s resolutions. Or, at least she wholly understands your impending failure to keep them. So go ahead, smoke another cigarette. Smoke whatever you can find. Down a few more 100 calorie snack packs. Eat a whole goddamn box of 100 calorie snack...
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“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that...”
– Marcel Proust
“2012: Time to remove shady people from your life
2012: hora de afastar gente...”
– Paulo Coelho
December 2011
40 posts
“The road to wisdom?
Well, it’s plain and simple to express.
Err and err...”
– Piet Hein
This is beautiful. →
