July 2010
1 post
“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via apsies)
The second part of this quote is too rarely quoted.
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May 2010
3 posts
“This is the wind, the wind in a field of corn.
Great crowds are fleeing from a...”
– Wind - James Fenton
“Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via caryrandolph) (via beautifulordinaire)
January 2010
1 post
“Afinal, a melhor maneira de viajar é sentir.
Sentir tudo ele todas as maneiras....”
– Fernando Pessoa, Poesia de Álvaro de Campos. Afinal, a melhor maneira de viajar é sentir, (first stanza of the poem).
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November 2009
1 post
October 2009
1 post
“..I just go ahead and stare at that cookie jar, it was almost as if I take every...”
– Kenneth Parcell - 30 Rock
September 2009
8 posts
“The moment the mind interferes with love, or the will fixes on it,
or the...”
– The Mess of Love - D.H. Lawrence
http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=2019... →
Soon they would think that the poor, lazy, stupid and unadaptable ones should die out. Poor fella below, the polar bear, is wiser than those so called naturalist.
“I am your inner polar bear. Find me before it’s too late.
There’s...”
– Jeanette Winterson
The Guardian, Saturday 26 September 2009
“In the greyness
and drizzle of one despondent
dawn unstirred by harbingers...”
– The Vultures - Chinua Achebe
"Paper does not, in fact, burn at Fahrenheit 451....
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August 2009
26 posts
“He felt as if he had left a stage behind and many actors. He felt as if he had...”
– Fahrenheit 451 p.140 - Ray Bradburry
“X.
I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they...”
– La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats
“In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering,...”
– Last Post - Carol Ann Duffy
“If you look now, quickly and askance,
you can see how the camera’s eye...”
– With my Sons at Boarhills - Anne Stevenson
“Between the idea
And the reality
Between the motion
And the act
Falls the...”
– The Hollow Men - T.S. Elliot
“Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve...”
– Fire and Ice - Robert Frost
“You and your photographs of boats;
that repeated metaphor for departure,
or...”
– Boats - Cyril wong
“Time present and time past
Are both perhaps present in time future
And time...”
– Four Quartets - T.S. Eliot
“I want you and you are not here. I pause
In this garden, breathing the colour...”
– Miles Away - Carol Ann Duffy
“The warrior of light never falls into the trap of that word...”
– Manual of the Warrior of Light - Paulo Coelho
“If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung...”
– Wilfred Owen - Dulce Et Decorum Est
“This is where she lives, the wrong side of the glass
in black-and-white. To...”
– Big Sue and Now, Voyager - Carol Ann Duffy
“All my regrets, all my acclaims
The joy and the pain, I’m making them...”
– Hillsong - Lord I offer my life to You